Of Censorship, The Pogues, and Christmas in the NYPD drunk tank…
20 years ago, Irish band The Pogues released the song Fairytale in New York. It has since become the UK’s #1 favourite Christmas song. This is a bit odd because the song is a duet about a couple of bums locked up in a NY drunk tank.
Gotta hand it to the Brits though – no gushy merry gentlemen jingling this or pa-rum-pum-pum-pumming that!
The song got some extra attention last week when BBC Radio 1 tried to censor two bad words from the original. One rhymes with “glut” and the other with “maggot”. We’re not ones to support ridiculous political correctness censorship, so the offending verse appears below…
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
Tugs on your heartstrings, doesn’t it? Make sure you print extra copies of the lyrics before you go out caroling with the gang later!
Happy Holidays to all our readers!!
Tags: Pogues, Fairytale-in-NewYork, BBC, Censorship, Christmas
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