You’re a bum
You’re a punk
You’re an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas, your arse,
I pray God it’s our last.
I don’t usually crosspost, but I saw this thread after I posted in the other one, so I’ll repeat what I just said.
Let’s take a moment and remember the phenomenal singer who gave those words such resonance, the late, great Kirsty MacColl.
I miss her terribly, but I’m so thankful that she’ll never be totally forgotten if only because of that song. Many many millions of people have heard her voice who have no idea who she is, but they remember those words. She would find that quite amusing.
I miss her too, and I always think of her kids when we do this thread every year.
I could have been someone
Well so could anyone.
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I never heard any of this before today when I heard it on CBC radios’ “Q” program this morning. Wonderful. Available on CBC’s website, easily googled. Podcastable, I think.
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can’t make it out alone
I’ve built my dreams about you
Thanks for the video that was a first for me.
My favourite Pogues and Kirsty MacColl video: lighting up Cole Porter’s “Miss Otis Regrets” and “It Was Just One Of Those Things”, off the old Red, Hot + Blue album. Sheer musical bliss - enjoy!
And the Boys in the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay.
And the bells were ringing out on Christmas Day.
I love that album, bought it when it was first released. I saw the video when that TV special aired. It was nice to see it again. Thanks!
Yeah, it’s a classic: I still have Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry doing “Well, Did You Evah!” on high rotate. And it was the first time I pegged Annie Lennox as an actual singer and not just an MTV gimmick.
Thanks, everybody- it just isn’t Christmas until we sing this. 
How did that one get past me???
Amazon, here I come!
Q
Buy it: there is not a bad track on that album. Well, maybe a fey David Byrne smirking his way through “Don’t Fence Me In”, but you get The Neville Brothers crooning through “In The Still Of the Night” and k d lang breaking hearts on “So In Love” to make up: even apparent 80’s lightweights like Erasure and Fine Young Cannibals rise to the material.