AIBU to think that Fairytale of New York is the most perfect Christmas song?

[warmandwooly]

Not sappy, twee or sentimental and highly singable. I love it!

No YANBU! I love that song

LordOfTheFlies, surely it's 'Happy Christmas your arse'? It rhymes with 'our last' in the next line, which she sings the southern-English way e.g. 'larst'. Aries, it's 'I pray God it's our last'.

[pedant]

I also love it but I interpreted it positively. He says:
"you're an old slut on junk lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed" which I took to mean that he was fed up with the fact that she was a junkie but that he was there, in hospital, with her, (ie holding her hand) anyway (and so did care really) and as she was quite capable of shouting back I figured that she wasn't dying. She then says "I pray god it's our last" which suggests that it isn't actually their last and the end is all about how he has built his dreams around her and loves her - ie I take it that he is reassuring her that he does really care. So I see it as a romantic song about a couple, one a drunk and one on junk, who get on, support one another and are still together despite having lots of rows

It's deffo 'Your arse.'

I thought it was 'on a trip in that bed'

I like soggy's interpretation
It is just a rather bittersweet love song isn't it?

That BBC article states that the lyric was changed to "ass" in some versions, so "arse" is right but "ass" is understandable.

I like the song, but prefer the Christy Moore version, he can sing in tune.

I like Greg Lake's "I believe in Father Christmas" too, but mostly for the instrumental bits. Once I realised they were from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije, I mostly just listen to that instead!

tut tut ragging on Shane McGowan. He's all kinds of awesome.

Well for what its worth I reckon its an utterly shit song.

Give me Shakin' Stevens any day - that's a proper Christmas song.

Could not hate it more. And all the people who squawk along with it, sniggering at the swears. Gah. Shane McG is a talentless weasel. All that 'oh, it sums up Christmas' shite, really? The heroin addiction, arrests for D&D, gambling and broken hearted doom? Good luck to you then.

Awful, awful song.

On the link to the lyric (Thurs 10.24) it says your ass

S'why I said I thought it sounded like yer arse to me.

'Ass' just doesn't sound rude enough, does it!

Shane McG is a talentless weasel.

how could you. He's beyond brilliant. "Rum,Sodomy and the Lash" is one of my favourite albums.

Only if 'beyond brilliant' means he has gone so far beyond, he's arrived right back at Shite Station, will we agree mayor . He is all things nasty.

Not as scary as the Bubbler, granted, but nasty.

MayorQ I agree, love Rum, Sodomy and the Lash is fantastic.

But does no-one else like A Christmas Dream by Perry? Bloody brilliant.

Loved it then. Love it now.

Love it, love it, love it

I used to hate it..........until I heard Christy Moore's version which made me cry instantly.

Now love it.

Yes! Someone else loves that version!

Ok ok, I KNEW it was "I pray God it's our last." It was JUST A TYPO OK?????

God. I've done it on karaoke with my friend Simon enough times

DH loves the song, and wants to point out it's ARSE......

CED
Ass
1.either of two perissodactyl mammals of the horse family (either of two perissodactyl mammals of the horse family (Equidae ), either of two perissodactyl mammals of the horse family (), Equus asinus (African wild ass) or either of two perissodactyl mammals of the horse family (), () or E. hemionus (Asiatic wild ass). They are hardy and sure-footed, having longer ears than the horse related adjective asinine
2.(not in technical use) the domesticated variety of the African wild ass; donkey
3.a foolish or ridiculously pompous person

Arse
1.the buttocks
2.the anus
3.a stupid person; fool

Its a brilliant song IMHO. I love it so YANBU.