This is one of my favourite Christmas songs. It is probably the one song you are guaranteed to hear on every Irish radio station and in every Irish pub at this time of year!
"Fairytale of New York" was released as a single in 1987 and reached #1 in the Irish charts and #2 in the British charts, over Christmas (the time of peak sales). The song has become a festive classic. It takes the form of a drunken man's Christmas Eve reverie about holidays past while sleeping off a binge in a New York City drunk tank. The drunken man (Shane MacGowan) begins to dream about a failed relationship with a fellow Irish immigrant, their youthful hopes crushed by alcoholism and drug addiction, reminiscing and bickering on Christmas Eve in New York City.
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Aw, it's beautiful and sad!
1it's a beautiful song.
2It's a beautiful song gruaig, thank you for sharing it with us.
3I've never heard it before, but now will look forward to hearing it every Christmas...and will think of my friend Ms. Gruaig in Ireland!
Thank you so much for sharing it with your Sugar friends.
4Thanks for posting Gruaig, never heard that song before, but I agree it's very sad, yet beautiful
*Thank you. My real name... is plain... Jane Jones. (Alice - Closer)
5This song is so beautiful. I discovered it seeing the movie "Basquiat" and I think it's so heartbreaking. It's a lovely 'non-holiday' holiday song.
6I love it! You'd think they'd play this in New York but I've never heard it before. Maybe I don't hang out in the right places.
7beautiful
8Sad but very beautiful.
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9Very sad and sweet at the same time. I like it a lot! Great post.
10Fantastic song!
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