Shane MacGowan defends controversial lyric in Pogues' hit Fairytale of New York

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For a number of years debate has raged about the use of the word f****t in the 1987 Christmas favourite - and now the writer has addressed the criticism of his festive tune

Shane MacGowan has defended the use of the word f****t in his iconic Christmas favourite Fairytale of New York.

 

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DailyMirror Listen to the context the song is sung. Its basically 2 people having an argument during it all, and who hasn't said things they regret saying in rage? I'm not condoning anything, but in rage, anything can be said

DailyMirror WTF is complaining now about one of the best Christmas songs EVER. FFS YOU POLITICALLY CORRECT DO GOODERS GET A LIFE FFS , ITS A GOD DAM SONG

DailyMirror How can you defend the word faggot 🤔

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