![]() ![]() Gaza from Edinburgh, United KingdomI love this song sooo much.James from Crawley, United KingdomDoes anyone realise that Shane is English not Irish, he was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent South East England.Jim from Long Beach, CaGreat song!! I love The Pogues.This is a contemporary song not a historic one, though obviously it has echoes. Paul from Newtonmore, United KingdomDon't forget the song Galway Bay wasn't written till after the Second World War.Shane Macgowan did not write 'Thousands are sailing'. Mark from Portsmouth, United KingdomPetter from Sweden. ![]() Still great song and unlike Saint Etienne Shane Mac Gowan really was born on Christmas day. Sioraf from Macroon, IrelandIt would be an Irish band that would write possibly the most depressing Christmas song ever at least 2000 miles ends happily. ![]() It was all a drunken fantasy they were never going to see through. He wakes up and a guy is singing an Irish tune. He wakes up in an Irish drunk tank still grasping at the fairytale. She blamed him for taking dreams away that she had invented with him. They fought as addicts will do when the easy fix is gone. ![]() They drank and drugged it all away, while concocting this big fairytale of their life in New York. The Page Collective from New YorkThey never made it New York.That's like calling Die Hard a Christmas movie. I'll push this bad news out of my mind soon enough.īut I don't know if I'd call it a Christmas song. I thought it was just an upbeat, happy song about a couple that had had their troubles, but had reconciled. (Fairytale of New York is not widely known in the U.S.).įrankly, I wish I had not researched the song's meaning. I've enjoyed "Fairytale of New York" for decades, as I purchased the album, "If I Should Fall from Grace with God" (?), soon after it's release. I wish that was enough to cause me to question your interpretation. So the thought of Galway Bay being sung in a 1950s New York drunk tank never struck me as something that couldn't happen. (We are an Irish(-American) family, though). I think my parents had that album (in Philadelphia). However, the singer of Galway Bay was Bing Crosby, a huge American star of the 1950's. Jt from Philadelphia, PaI find the view of The Page Collective of New York to be quite insightful, however depressing it may be.Of course, one does not have to be ethnically Irish or Irish-born to perform Irish music or love Irish music. His being Irish probably explains his interest in Irish music. I've always known he was born in England, and I would always have described him as Irish. It isn't because he was born in Ireland or not born in England. That is why someone might call him Irish. I believe that Shane McGowan is ethnically Irish. We might be speaking two different languages here, so to speak, but: Jt from Philadelphia, PaRe "James from Crawley, United Kingdomĭoes anyone realise that Shane is English not Irish, he was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent South East England.The line about rivers of gold also suggests that they never made it to New York. That is probably even less likely in a 1950s NYC drunk tank. Jt from Philadelphia, PaSorry, it was The Rare Old Mountain Dew, and not Galway Bay, which was heard in the drunk tank.Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind Publisher: DistroKid, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group Writer/s: Jem Finer, Shane Patrick Lysaght Macgowan Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed An old man said to me, won't see another one ![]()
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