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Song title:       Fairytale of New York
Original Album:   If I Should Fall From Grace With God (The Pogues)
Album:            Galore (Kirsty MacColl)

Words and Music by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan
Copyright © 1987 Pogue Mahone
Published by ???

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
This was a big hit for The Pogues in Dec 1987, reaching #1 in the Irish
charts, and featuring Kirsty MacColl duetting with SM. It was re-released 
in 1991 and 2005 and has been in the UK Top 40 every December since.

The figure in the intro is actually what the piano plays.
I thought you might like to try it out for the guitar.


INTRO:

Guitar Figure 1

   D  G         D   G     A    D

|--5--7----9-10-5---3--2--0-------|
|--7/-8---------7---3--3--2--3-3--|
|-------7---------7------------2--|
|-----0---------0---0----------0--|
|-------------------------0-------|
|---------------------------------|



VERSE:
G                D                G
It was Christmas Eve babe, in the drunk-tank
           D                      G
An old man said to me, won't see another one
 
A           D                         G
And then he sang a song: The Rare Old Mountain Dew  
            D             G        Asus4 D    G
I turned my face away and dreamed about  you


VERSE:
         D                      G
Got on a lucky one: came in eighteen to one
           D                       G      A
I've got a feeling this year's for me and you
         D                     G
So happy Christmas, I love you baby
            D                G        Asus4      D
I can see a better time when all our dreams come true


G  D  G  Asus4

D A  D G A D


INTERLUDE:
            D           A                 Bm        G
They've got cars big as bars, they've got rivers of gold
        D                                                  A
But the wind goes right through you, it's no place for the old

         D             Bm        D              G
When you first took my hand on a cold Christmas Eve
    D           A            D
You promised me Broadway was waiting for me

         D                                            A
You were handsome, you were pretty, Queen of New York City
         D             G             A              D
When the band finished playing, they howled out for more

D                                              A
Sinatra was swinging, all the drunks they were singing
   D             G            A                  D
We kissed on the corner, then danced through the night


REFRAIN:
    G             Bm A          D               Bm
The boys of the NYPD choir were singing "Galway Bay"
        D          G       A                 D A 
And the bells were ringing out for Christmas day


Bm G  D A  D  Bm D G   D A D


INTERLUDE (cont.):
D                                                  A
You're a bum, you're a punk, you're an old slut on junk
       D            G         A            D
Living there almost dead on a drip in that bed

    D                                     A
You scum bag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot
      D              G            A            D    A  D
Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God it's our last


REFRAIN:
    G             Bm A           D               Bm
The boys of the NYPD choir still singing `Galway Bay`
        D         G       A                 D
And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day


VERSE:
A            D                            G
I could have been someone (Well, so could anyone.
            D                           A
You took my dreams from me when I first found you)
            D                        G
I kept them with me babe, I put them with my own
              D                        G      A      D
Can't make it all alone, I've built my dreams around you


[repeat REFRAIN]


CHORDS:
G        320033
Asus4    x02230
D        xx0232
A        x02220
Bm       xx4432