{"id":27301,"date":"2025-11-15T16:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=27301"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:31:25","slug":"fairy-tale-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/fairy-tale-of-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy Tale of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
BY THE POGUES - MODIFIED - ORIGINAL BELOW \r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\nIt was Christmas [C] Eve babe, in the [F] drunk-tank\r\nAn old man [C] said to me, won't see [G] another one\r\nAnd then he [C] sang a song, The Rare Old [G] Mountain Dew\r\nI turned my [C] face away and [G] dreamed about [C] you\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nGot on a [C] lucky one, came in [F] eighteen to one\r\nI've got a [C] feeling this year's for [G] me and you\r\nSo happy [C] Christmas, I love you [F] baby\r\nI can see a [C] better time when all our [G] dreams come [C] true\r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\nThey've got [C] cars - Big as [G] bars\r\nThey've got [Am] rivers of [F] gold\r\nBut the [C] wind goes right through you\r\nIt's no place for the [G] old\r\nWhen you [C] first took my [Am] hand\r\nOn a [C] cold Christmas [F] Eve\r\nYou [C] promised me\r\nBroadway was [G] waiting for [C] me\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\nYou were [C] handsome.  You were pretty.\r\nQueen of New York [G] City\r\nWhen the [C] band finished [F] playing\r\nThey [G] howled out for [C] more\r\n[C] Sinatra was swinging\r\nAll the drunks they were [G] singing\r\nWe [C] kissed on the [F] corner\r\nThen [G] danced through the [C] night\r\n \r\n \r\n[Hook] - - - The [F] boys of the NYPD [G] choir\r\nWere [C] singing 'Galway [Am] Bay'\r\nAnd the [C] bells were [F] ringing\r\n[G] Out for Christmas [C] Day\r\n \r\n[Verse 5]  - ELIMINATED - SEE BELOW\r\n\r\n[Verse 6] - CHANGED SLIGHTLY\r\nI could have [C] been someone, and took you [F] with me\r\nWe took our [C] dreams and made them [G] one\r\nI keep them [C] with me babe, I put them [F] with my own\r\nCan't make it [C] all alone, I've built my [G] dreams around [C] you\r\n \r\n[HOOK]\r\n<\/pre>\n
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BY THE POGUES – MODIFIED – ORIGINAL BELOW [Verse 1] It was Christmas [C] Eve babe, in the [F] drunk-tank An old man [C] said to me, won’t see [G] another one And then he [C] sang a song, The Rare Old [G] Mountain Dew I turned my [C] face … CLICK TO VIEW SONGFairy Tale of New York<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-baritone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}