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Over the years, Fairytale of New York has become a Christmas classic, a drunken hymn about two people falling out of love, blaming each other for their broken dreams and abandoned hopes, contrasting many of the more upbeat tracks on offer during the festive period.
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It s arguably (undeniably) the best Christmas song of all time. Fairytale of New York is a drunken hymn for those with broken dreams and abandoned hopes, that begins with its narrator, an Irish immigrant, being thrown into a drunk tank to sleep off his Christmas Eve binge.
Hearing an old man sing the Irish ballad The Rare Old Mountain Dew , he begins to dream about his memories of the female character in the song, and so begins the story of two people who fell in love in America, only to see their plans of a bright future dashed into a muddy puddle on the sidewalk.