It was Christmas Eve, babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me, "Won't see another one" And then he sang a song "The Rare Old Mountain Dew" I turned my face away And dreamed about you Got on a lucky one Came in 18 to one I've got a feeling This year's for me and you So happy Christmas I love you, baby I can see a better time When all our dreams come true They've got cars big as bars, they've got rivers of gold But the wind goes right through you, it's no place for the old When you first took my hand on a cold Christmas Eve You promised me Broadway was waiting for me You were handsome You were pretty, Queen of New York City When the band finished playing They howled out for more Sinatra was swinging, all the drunks they were singing We kissed on a corner then danced through the night The boys of the NYPD choir Were singing "Galway Bay" And the bells were ringing out For Christmas day You're a bum, you're a punk You're an old slut on junk Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed You scumbag, you maggot You cheap lousy faggot Happy Christmas your arse I pray God it's our last The boys of the NYPD choir Still singing "Galway Bay" And the bells were ringing out For Christmas day I could have been someone Well, so could anyone You took my dreams from me When I first found you I kept them with me, babe I put them with my own Can't make it all alone I've built my dreams around you The boys of the NYPD choir Still singing "Galway Bay" And the bells are ringing out For Christmas day
It was Christmas Eve, babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me, "Won't see another one" And then he sang a song "The Rare Old Mountain Dew" I turned my face away And dreamed about you Got on a lucky one Came in 18 to one I've got a feeling This year's for me and you So happy Christmas I love you, baby I can see a better time When all our dreams come true They've got cars big as bars, they've got rivers of gold But the wind goes right through you, it's no place for the old When you first took my hand on a cold Christmas Eve You promised me Broadway was waiting for me You were handsome You were pretty, Queen of New York City When the band finished playing They howled out for more Sinatra was swinging, all the drunks they were singing We kissed on a corner then danced through the night The boys of the NYPD choir Were singing "Galway Bay" And the bells were ringing out For Christmas day You're a bum, you're a punk You're an old slut on junk Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed You scumbag, you maggot You cheap lousy faggot Happy Christmas your arse I pray God it's our last The boys of the NYPD choir Still singing "Galway Bay" And the bells were ringing out For Christmas day I could have been someone Well, so could anyone You took my dreams from me When I first found you I kept them with me, babe I put them with my own Can't make it all alone I've built my dreams around you The boys of the NYPD choir Still singing "Galway Bay" And the bells are ringing out For Christmas day
A composição da faixa começou em 1985 e passou por uma história de desenvolvimento conturbada de dois anos, envolvendo reescritas, tentativas de gravação abortadas e a perda da vocalista original feminina antes de ser concluída em agosto de 1987.
Embora nunca tenha ocupado o primeiro lugar das paradas britânicas no Natal – sendo mantida na segunda posição em 1987 pela versão do Pet Shop Boys para "Always on My Mind" –, ela entrou no Top 20 do Reino Unido vinte e duas vezes desde seu lançamento original.
O single atingiu o Top 20 do Reino Unido em todos os Natais desde 2005 e, em dezembro de 2023, recebeu a certificação de platina sextupla no Reino Unido por um total de 3,6 milhões de vendas combinadas.
No Reino Unido, a música é a canção de Natal mais tocada do século XXI e foi eleita a "Canção de Natal Favorita da Nação" em um especial de televisão da ITV em dezembro de 2012.
Estruturada como uma balada em estilo folk irlandês, a faixa foi escrita como um dueto narrativo, com o cantor dos Pogues, Shane MacGowan, interpretando o personagem masculino e a cantora Kirsty MacColl assumindo o papel feminino.
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