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The Pogues w/ Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale of New York"

submitted by calvados

1 decade 6 years 10 months 1 week ago

You may not recognize the name of this song, but chances are you know and love it. You'll go "ohh, it's *that* song!" as you reach for the upvote. Happy Christmas your arse, I thank God it's our last!

15 Comments

Great song classic etc you hear it over here in ireland in erm December any other time of year no thanks.

Too much structure in your life, PP!

Expired in Queue - 4 day limit.

*save 1 vote to go!

Look for Matt Dillon in the beginning... song's got quite the interesting wiki entry as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairytale_of_New_York

Saving this video from queue deletion, sending it to the top of the queue for one more try. Originally submitted on Wednesday 18th July 2007 (save called by gold star member lisacat)

Dignant_Pink says...

upvote. the pogues are amazing.

Boom! Thanks lisacat!

best christmas song ever....

ridesallyridenc says...

Always loved this one, never seen the video. Pretty sure the cop pushing Shane into the drunk tank in the beginning of the video is Matt Dillon. Interesting.

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

Classic.

I don't think enough time has passed to *promote this, but let's give it a try...

Only videos last published more than 6 months ago may be promoted - ignoring promote request by Spiff.

Ah well...next year, then.

*dead, sorry

This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by winkler1.

how about now?

I don't think enough time has passed to *promote this, but let's give it a try...

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