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I am still convinced its 10\1 but 90% last year went for 18\1....hoping its closer this year though I am not holding my breath
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18/1
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It certainly sounds like 10/1, but all the lyrics I've seen, say 18/1.
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For those that need a memory refresh
https://youtu.be/HwHyuraau4Q?t=47s |
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18/1 for me (even though it seems a slightly odd price).
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It's 100% 10/1
Listen to it through your earphones on youtube, imagine he is saying 18/1 then listen again imagine he is saying 10/1 you soon see he is saying 10/1 when you compare |
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in fact even lip reading it's clearly TEN
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Yet all printed lyrics say "eighteen to one"
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all printed lyrics are wrong.
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Even the Pogues own website have it wrong then!
  http://www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/IfIShould/Fairytale.html |
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Yep that's wrong as well. Doesn't mean they've consulted the lyricist. Only the man himself knows
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18-1 nailed on. Why would you write 10-1 when 18-1 is more to brag about anyway?
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agree with SH it sounds nowt like 18\1 but the official lyrics have it at 18\1...........at SH has shown I am not deaf
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Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)
The Pogues Lyrics It was Christmas Eve babe 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 scumbag, you maggot You cheap lousy **** Happy Christmas your arse I pray God it's our last The boys of the NYPD choir Still 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 are ringing out For Christmas day Written by Jem Finer, Shane Patrick Lysaght Macgowan • Copyright © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc, Universal Music Publishing Group |
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For those of you who think you hear different lyrics to what they actually are :-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u97o1dN4KvA  |
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we have already established that 18\1 is the official version of it......pay attention facts
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The correct version
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if anyone seriously says that sounds like 18\1 they are listening to something totally different to me
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facts.........do you think it sounds like 18\1............maybe its an irish thing and they pronounce or sing 18\1 like 10\1
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10/1 is a no offers.
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Fook me, it's 18/1... came in eighteen to one ( notice no 'at')
the 10/1 chumps are hearing it as.. came in at ten to one.  |
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Just had a read of last year's thread - where I started of arguing that it was 10/1!!
 However, I did later on post the following link to an article where McGowan states that it comes in at the unlikely odds of 18/1: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/dec/06/fairytale-new-york-pogues-christmas-anthem And can we trust the narrator anyway? "The guy is a bum who is living on the street," says MacGowan. "And he's just won on a horse at the unlikely odds of 18-to-one, so you're not even sure he is telling the truth." |
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has to be `at ten to one`
or `at eighteen to one` can`t be `eighteen to one`..poor English can`t be `at eighteen to one`..dosn`t scan so has to be `at ten to one` |
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when Dylan sang Simon and Garfunkel`s The Boxer he changed the line
`of every glove that laid him down` to `of every blow that laid him down` it improved the lyric cleverly, because it was life`s blows that laid him down. |
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they may have pinched the tune from a 16c tune for mandolins, can`t recall who.
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^ fairytale of new York.
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^ ****
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crags 17 Nov 16 22:52 Fook me, it's 18/1... came in eighteen to one ( notice no 'at') the 10/1 chumps are hearing it as.. came in at ten to one. Correct crags. There is no ' at' |
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10/1 without a shadow of doubt.
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^ boring troll post
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cardifffc
Listen to it again, and tell your brain not to assume that an sp price has to be preceded by an 'at' |
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Once again you're spot on crags !
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I know!
This place is very silly now, sadly. |
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crags
^ boring troll post Sorry crags I had forgot you hold the patent rights to boring troll posts. |
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You're being very polite crags.
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Facts why don't you play the song to all your lodgers and we'll go by the majority vote.
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Gosh ....what rapier like wit you have.
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Sorry ( bloody predictive text)
* what a fcking tw@t you are |