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Banjo player Jem Finer promptly wrote not one but two songs in response.
Finer apparently gave them both to MacGowan.
He gave it a Broadway melody and his incomparable way with words, and there it was.
Might she have a crack at it from their home studio?
Oh, and didn’t she do well there… Costello allegedly suggested calling itChristmas Eve in the Drunk Tank, but MacGowan quite rightly nixed that plan.
Come on, a song with that title was never get much airtime on the radio, was it?
Anyway, everything worked out in the end.
You are now fully briefed.
You know this song inside out, right?
Now do the quiz, you scumbag, you maggot… and raise a glass for Shane.
