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1	* CommonKnowledge: Everyone "knows" that "Fairytale of New York" is a cynical, bitter AntiChristmasSong about two deeply troubled people whose relationship falls apart acrimoniously. Well, not exactly. Beneath all the fighting and misery, the two still love each other and hope for a better life together; the end of the song even implies that the couple reconciles. It's still not a ''happy'' Christmas song -- but it's all the more sincere because of it.
2	* CoveredUp:
3	** "Dirty Old Town" was originally written Ewan [=MacColl=] about Salford. Music/TheDubliners' 1964 version made it part of the Irish folk repertoire, but the Pogues' version cemented it as a Dublin anthem for all time. Salford City FC even play the Pogues' version rather than [=MacColl=]'s.
4	-->'''Cait O'Riordan:''' In all the thousand times I’ve heard people play this song since 1986 I’ve never heard anyone ''not'' play it in our arrangement.
5	** "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is originally by Music/EricBogle, but the Pogues' version is much better known north of the equator. (Bogle's version remains the iconic one in Australia, however.)
6	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Possible TearJerker, but this verse from ''Body Of An American.''
7	--> "This morning on the harbour, when I said goodbye to you\
8	I remember how I swore that I'd come back to you one day
9	--> And as the sunset came to meet the evening on the hill
10	--> I told you I'd always love you; I always did and I always will"
11	* SignatureSong: "Fairytale of New York" - it's a beloved Christmas song in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and re-enters the charts annually.
12	* TearJerker: "Fairytale Of New York", "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", "The Old Main Drag", "Thousands Are Sailing", "A Pair Of Brown Eyes"... take your pick.
13	* ValuesDissonance:
14	** "The Old Main Drag" contains a transphobic slur, which would be unthinkable in TheNewTens.
15	** "Fairytale Of New York" has attracted a lot of criticism for the use of the word "faggot", to the point where some radio stations now edit that word out. Shane [=MacGowan=] [[https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/not-all-characters-in-songs-and-stories-are-angels-shane-macgowan-responds-to-fairytale-controversy-37603661.html defended it]] on the grounds that the song is sung from the view of a bigoted LowerClassLout who is supposed to come across as homophobic, similar to Mark Knopfler's justification for using the slur in Music/DireStraits' "Money for Nothing".

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