Need help with an offbeat christmas tune

[KensPen]

by an irish punk type band....

the lyrics start

"was christmas eve my friend, in the drunk tank
the old man next to me
said "I won't see another one"

the refrain was singing about
"the boys in the NYPD Choir were singing (something mumble mumble)
and the bells were ringing out for christmas Day"

anyone anyone?

[meegbear]

1. Pogues - Fairytale of New York

Had the wrong title.

[KensPen]

2. YES!!!!

that's it,
thanks....

Love that song....

somehow that gets me welled up when I hear it.

[markus]

3. the boys . . . were singing Galway Bay

is how it goes.

Damn. I wish I had less cassettes and more CDs (or more inclination to hookup tape drive to PC) so I could burn myself up an Xmas mix to complete with my wife's slavish devotion to the local Clear Channel station that's gone All Bing Crosby, All The Time for the rest of the Holiday Season.

[Killarney]

4. I love that song!

I have it on a Greatest Hits CD of theirs, along with "Dirty Old Town." Great band.

[KensPen]

5. I actually burned a Christmas CD with

that song on it (Fairytale)
and a couple of Cocteau Twins songs (Winter Wonderland, Frosty)
and some of the more well known staples
Waitresses, Bing and Bowie, etc.