Biography shane macgowan christmas lullaby lyrics
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Shane MacGowan: The lyrics that defined a great songwriter
“You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap, lousy f****t.”
It’s Shane MacGowan’s best-known line, the subject of much debate and discussion, but the head Pogue wrote so many great lines that it seems unfair his lyrical legacy should be boiled down to a redundant epithet.
Here are 10 of the best from the boozy bard.
1. Dark Streets of London
Now the winter comes down, I can’t stand the chill
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That comes to the streets around Christmas time
And I’m buggered to damnation and I haven’t got a penny
To wander the dark streets of London
Fairytale wasn’t MacGowan’s only song about being down and out at Christmas time. Before he wrote that seasonal classic, set in New York, he wrote many an ode to the dissolute life in London, and this song captures the bleakness of a winter in that cold, unforgiving city.
2. Transmetropolitan
In the rosy parks of England, we’ll sit and have a drink
Of VP wine and cider ‘ti
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This tune appears as an extra cut on the "That Woman's Got Me Drinking" cd single. The song is based on the traditional Irish air "The Moreen" with lyrics by Thomas Moore. Moore () attended Trinity College, Dublin, at the same time as both Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone. He became close friends with both and was active in a debating society were Emmet, Tone, and others forged the ideas that would become the foundation for the United Irishmen. During a University investigation of, and crackdown on, the United Irishmen at Trinity, Moore refused to give evidence against his friends (although he himself was not a member of the United Irishmen). He did not participate directly in the rebellion, but he did publish a number of poems and odes to the leaders who died, including one for Robert Emmett ("Oh Breathe Not his Name"). In addition to his prolific work as a poet and writer, Moore is notable for two other acts. First, he published a hugely successful and influential compilation of tr
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It seems like a freeze out
It seems like a freize
Stumbling inom fell down
And prayed on my knees
The ice wagon's coming
To pick up the stiffs
Had a chat with an old one
He was gone in a jiff
And Santa and his reindeer
Jumped over the moon
So hush little child
Santa's coming here soon
Tura lura luray
Tura lura lie
Tura lura luray
It's a Christmas lullaby
Tura lura luray
Tura lura lie
Tura lura luray
It's a Christmas lullaby
I hope you grow up angry
Just like your dear old dad
I hope you grow up brave and strong
Not like me - all weak and sad
You said "Daddy, daddy,
You're stinking of booze"
I kissed him and said, "Kid,
inom was born to lose.
But you have a future
And a big one to say
And inom hope you'll remember
All the love that I gave."
Tura lura luray
Tura lura lie
Tura lura luray
It's a Christmas lullaby
Tura lura luray
Tura lura lie
Tura lura luray
It's a Christmas lull