De origen netamente irlandés y representado por la impagable imagen de Shane MacGowan, su cantante y lider, The Pogues conjugan aires populares, voluntad épica y reflexiones de caracter social con una grosería altisonante que a fuerza de altercados acabó por identificarles.
Desde una plataforma folk, pero con planteamientos punk, el septeto The Pogues encabeza una corriente que hace música de tradición gaélica con intensidad y arrojo
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
DG It was Christmas Eve babe, In the drunktank
DA An old man said to me, won't see another one
DG And then he sang a song, The Rare Old Mountain Dew
DAD I turned my face away And dreamed about you
DG Got on a lucky one Came in eighteen to one
DA I've got a feeling This year's for me and you
DG So happy Christmas, I love you baby
DAD I can see a better time When all our dreams come true
D They've got cars
A Big as bars
BmG They've got rivers of gold
D But the wind goes right through you
A It's no place for the old
DBm When you first took my hand
DG On a cold Christmas Eve
D You promised me
AD Broadway was waiting for me
D You were handsome
You were pretty
A Queen of New York City
DG When the band finished playing
AD They howled out for more
D Sinatra was swinging
A All the drunks they were singing
DG We kissed on the corner
AD Then danced through the night
GA The boys of the NYPD choir
DBm Were singing 'Galway Bay'
DG And the bells were ringing
AD Out for Christmas day
Interlude:
DG DA DG DAD
D You're a bum
A You're a punk
BmG You're an old slut on junk
D Living there almost dead
A on a drip In that bed
D You scum bag
You maggot
A You cheap lousy faggot
DG Happy Christmas your arse
A I pray God
D It's our last
GA The boys of the NYPD choir
DBm Still singing `Galway Bay`
DG And the bells are ringing
AD Out for Christmas Day
DG I could have been someone Well, So could anyone
DA You took my dreams From me when I first found you
DG I kept them with me babe I put them with my own
DAD Can't make it all alone I've built my dreams around you
GA The boys of the NYPD choir
DBm Still Singing `Galway Bay`
DG And the bells are ringing
AD Out for Christmas Day