The Irish Tenors - Fairytale of New York lyrics
rate meIt was Christmas eve, babe<br />
In the drunk tank<br />
An old man said to me<br />
Won't see another one<br />
<br />
Then he sang a song<br />
The rare 'Old Mountain Dew'<br />
I turned my face away<br />
And dreamed about you<br />
<br />
Got on a lucky one<br />
Came in eighteen to one<br />
I had a feeling that years<br />
For me and you<br />
<br />
Said, "Happy Christmas<br />
I love you, baby<br />
I can see a better time<br />
When all our dreams come true"<br />
<br />
They got cars, big as bars<br />
They got rivers of gold<br />
But the wind blows right through you<br />
It's no place for the old<br />
<br />
When I first took your hand<br />
All your fingers were blue<br />
Well, I promised you Broadway<br />
Was waiting for you<br />
<br />
I was handsome, you were pretty<br />
Queen of New York city<br />
When the band finished playing<br />
They howled out for more<br />
<br />
Sinatra was swinging<br />
All the drunks, they were singing<br />
And we kissed on a corner<br />
Danced through the night<br />
<br />
And the boys of the NYPD choir<br />
Were singing, 'Galway Bay'<br />
And the bells were ringing out<br />
For Christmas day<br />
<br />
Be a bum, it was a clutter<br />
And smell like the gutter<br />
While sad broken promises<br />
Lay with the trash<br />
<br />
Every cold chilly night<br />
We'd end up in a fight<br />
And I'd pray as you'd yell<br />
That as train rattled past<br />
<br />
And the boys of the NYPD choir<br />
Still singing, 'Galway Bay'<br />
And the bells were ringing out<br />
Christmas day<br />
<br />
I could have been someone<br />
Say, so could anyone<br />
That I took your dreams from you<br />
When you first found me<br />
<br />
But I kept them with me, babe<br />
I put them with my own<br />
Can't make it all alone<br />
Built my dreams around you<br />
<br />
It's Christmas eve again<br />
In the drunk tank<br />
I'm an old man now<br />
I won't see another one<br />
<br />
So I'll sing a song<br />
And sleep when I'm through<br />
Dream of another life<br />
Where all our dreams came true<br /><br />
