{"id":895,"date":"2013-12-20T06:16:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T11:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/crywoof\/?p=895"},"modified":"2013-12-19T21:20:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T02:20:03","slug":"woof-guide-to-popular-music-fairytale-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/crywoof\/2013\/12\/woof-guide-to-popular-music-fairytale-of-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Woof Guide to Popular Music: Fairytale of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u201cThe boys of the NYPD choir are singing Galway Bay; and the bells are ringing out for Christmas day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today being the Friday before Christmas, I\u2019m presenting you with the Pogues\u2019 song \u201cFairytale of New York\u201d, a poignant (and occasionally vulgar) duet between Shane McGowan and the late Kirsty MacColl, in the personas of two people who are clearly no good together and yet somehow no good apart either. In my travels around the web I see this song mentioned more often than any other by the Pogues; and there\u2019s something about it, and especially about MacColl\u2019s voice on the chorus, that can sometimes move me to tears.<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\nMacColl was the daughter of folksinger Ewan MacColl; I\u2019ve got an album of him singing sea-chanties with A.L. Lloyd that I rather like, but I\u2019m not finding them on Youtube. Consequently, here he is singing \u201cThe Calton Weaver\u201d, aka \u201cNancy Whiskey\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>As I walked into Glasgow city \nNancy Whiskey I chanced to smell \nI walked in, sat down beside her \nSeven long years I loved her well \nThe more I kissed her, the more I loved her \nThe more I kissed her, the more she smiled \nI forgot my mother\u2019s teaching \nNancy soon had me beguiled<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ewan MacColl - The Calton Weaver\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wufMB2bhHkE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe boys of the NYPD choir are singing Galway Bay; and the bells are ringing out for Christmas day.\u201d Today being the Friday before Christmas, I\u2019m presenting you with the Pogues\u2019 song \u201cFairytale of New York\u201d, a poignant (and occasionally vulgar) duet between Shane McGowan and the late Kirsty MacColl, in the personas of two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[152,149,151,148,150],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woof-guide-to-popular-music","tag-ewan-maccoll","tag-fairytale-of-new-york","tag-kirsty-maccoll","tag-pogues","tag-shane-mcgowan"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Woof Guide to Popular Music: Fairytale of New York<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""The boys of the NYPD choir are singing Galway Bay; and the bells are ringing out for Christmas day." 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