«it was christmas eve, babe, in the drunk tank, an old man said to me, won't see another one, and then he sang a song, the rare old mountain.

Web“fairytale of new york” is a drunken hymn for people with broken dreams and abandoned hopes.

It is, therefore, a perfect contrast to some of the perkier perennial.

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