"A FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK"
Hoy os traigo una canción navideña, un tanto diferente, a lo que solemos escuchar estos días de fiesta.
Es una canción compuesta por el grupo de música punk celta irlandés. En ella el cantante del grupo, Shane MacGowan, y la la melodiosa y dulce voz de Kirsty MacColl, forman un duo magnifico, impregnando la canción de un sentimiento profundo.
El título, "A Fairy Tale of New York", se tomó de la novela homónima de J.P. Donleavy, y fue escogido después de que la canción estuviera escrita y grabada.
Lo que cuenta:
La canción cuenta la historia del ensueño de un hombre borracho en Nochebuena mientras duerme la mona en Nueva York en una celda. Otro borracho también encarcelado en su celda canta unos versos de la balada irlandesa "The Rare Old Montain Dew" y el borracho primero comienza a soñar sobre una relación amorosa fallida. El sueño deriva en dos immigrantes irladeses, amantes o examantes, cuyas ilusiones juveniles y esperanzas se ven aplastadas por el alcoholismo y las drogas, recordando y peleóndose en Nochevieja en Nueva York.
Letra de la canción en inglés:
It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
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
Dew'I turned my face away
And dreamed about you
Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true
They've got cars
Big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes
Right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me
You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night
The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells were ringing
Out for Christmas Day
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 scum bag
You maggot
You're cheap & your haggard
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God
It's our last
The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells were ringing
Out for Christmas Day
I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you
The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing 'Galway Bay'
And the bells were ringing
Out for Christmas Day
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Feliz Navidad.
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