And the boys of the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay - an ode to Fairytale of New York.
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- Опубликовано: 14 ноя 2023
- The Pogues were one of the greatest Irish groups of all time. And, in ‘Fairytale of New York’, they produced a classic that captured the hearts and minds of countless people all over the world. It is widely considered to be the greatest Christmas song of all time.
In the chorus, Shane MacGowan has a standout lyric on which most listeners join in: “…the boys of the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay…”. While people all over the world belt out that line, very few realise there has never been an NYPD choir, so none have ever sang Galway Bay…
Until now.
As champions of Irish emigrants the world over, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum wanted to bring this famed line to life, and celebrate the song ‘Galway Bay’, another timeless Irish classic, penned by Irish emigrant, Arthur Colahan, as a tribute to his homeland.
Last month, we assembled a handful of retired NYPD officers, who together with a local amateur choir, lent their voices to the beloved ‘Galway Bay’ in a Brooklyn recording studio.
The result, we hope you’ll agree is a breathtaking rendition of ‘Galway Bay’, which will be shared with and reach the Irish around the world, wherever they might be spending Christmas this year.
Shane MacGowan, RIP.
This was just what I needed after hearing the sad news this morning. May Shane have rested in heaven an hour before the devil knew he was dead.
"An Irishman's Philosophy
There are only two things to worry about:
Either you are well or you are sick.
If you are sick,
Then there are only two things to worry about:
Either you will get well or you will die.
If you get well,
Then there are only two things to worry about:
Either you will go to heaven or hell.
If you go to heaven, there is nothing to worry about.
But if you go to hell,
You'll be so damn busy shaking hands with friends
You won't have time to worry!"
He would have fallen into Heaven.
😂
My great-great grandmother, Julia Mullen, was born in Galway on Christmas Day 1850
Why does this song touch me so much that I cry? I'm fucking Norwegian!
And I'm Norwegian-American! There's something about Irish music. I guess that's why our ancestors invaded the place, lol.
It's an ode to Shane McGowan. That he died so recently is why this song makes me cry. Listen to his song "Christmas in New York". A great karaoke duet song.
It was a pleasure to help put this together and direct the video. Shout out to the NYPD officers who were game, The Crickets, Bridge Studio, The Public House, and EPIC.
Thank you, agus go raibh mille maith agaibh
Tá failte romha. Bhí sé go leor spraoi
The NYP got there in the end. Beautiful rendition ☘️
In the heart of the city, where the lights gleam bright,
A tale unfolds each Christmas night,
The Pogues once sang, in an Irish sway,
A Fairytale of New York, in a timeless play.
"And the boys of the NYPD choir were singing,"
A lyric embraced, the joy it was bringing,
In Galway Bay's echo, a tribute profound,
A melody spun, a connection unbound.
Shane MacGowan's voice, now a whispered song,
In memory, he lingers, forever strong,
Through cobblestone streets and city lights aglow,
A legend lives on in the falling snow.
From the emerald isle to the streets of New York,
A bridge of music, a love to uncork,
In every chorus, in every refrain,
A spirit dances, unbridled, unchained.
In a Brooklyn studio, a choir takes flight,
Retired officers, hearts alight,
They sing of Galway Bay, a distant shore,
An homage to Irish roots, forevermore.
EPIC Museum's vision, a gift to share,
A rendition of Galway Bay, rising in the air,
For the Irish, scattered, a global embrace,
A Christmas connection, transcending time and space.
Shane MacGowan, rest in peace, your legacy lives,
In the lyrics sung, the joy it gives,
Fairytale of New York, an anthem so grand,
Echoing through the years, across the land.
If you wrote this I just wanted to say how beautiful it is and so well done and very touching. ❤
It sure is all as described above. Brought a few tears to my eyes. This redheaded Erin can feel the music & lyrics in my bones. I wish my Irish heritage was so unknown, but I feel it there in so many ways.
❤ Thankyou for Sharing,
I live in Australia my Nanna was from Carrickfergus , my brother, and family are in New York for Xmas and we are both huge Pogues fans.
This poem and ode to Fairy tale in New York are perfect.
What a lovely thing you did!
Just frigging brilliant.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
And a Happy a new Year to all!
And Shane: if I am very fortunate, perhaps I will meet you on the other side of that black river between the dead and the living.
Perhaps we could sing a song or two.
This is so Irish, and a fitting tribute to Shane MacGowan.
Thank you from a member of the Irish Diaspora in Australia.
Very moving rendition...of Galway Bay....EPIC!
Well done boys,what a tribute to one of our own,I am sobbing as I post this,unbelievable!
My Dad use to sing this, when I was young. This beautiful version took me back to those days.
The visuals and audio are perfection. Gentlemen, this is how to do justice to this song!
Thank you, boys.....You are great for the remembering of Shane...❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you Irish Immigration Museum. I'm an Irish Immigrant living in Australia and the NYPD choir was the most beautiful rendition I've heard in a long time. Certainly brought tears to my eyes.
Thanks again. God Bless you all at NYPD and Happy Christmas 🇮🇪💚🎅❤🇦🇺🤶🦘
What an amazing Tribute for🖤Shane&Kristy♡Fairytale of New York...🕯R.I.P🖤
Yesssss
Jeez that was fab, well done lads 👏 May ye have a wonderful Christmas 🇮🇪☘️
My Dad sang this and now I do. This brought tears. 🥺
Heaven has the best craic now. Shane and Kirsty singing together again.. and so close to his birthday. God rest ye gentle, Shane.... but we know ye won't be sitting still for long. 💔🥃. Nollaig Shone to all!!!
How beautiful is this! listening and watching form Kilkenny Ireland. RIP the great and unmatchable Shane MacGowan.
this is amazing. what a way to honor the Pogues and McGowan and the all of the Irish diaspora! I love that there is an NYPD choir now!
❤ to all that read this...and listen to this beautiful powerful song and amazing song by these man!!! In memory of SHANE 💚🕊🍀 CHEERS from Holland....
Shane closed his eyes for the last time before he reached another Christmas. I'm sure he never realised how iconic his song would become when he and The Pogues first sang it. The Fairytale (an NYPD Choir) came through. Even the imagery reminds me of that other Christmas classic, It's a Wonderful Life. Did he get a chance to see this, I wonder?
Hi i was with him basically every day for the last good while and remember hearing about it but hadnt seen it. Im weeping here seeing it first time. God bless him and rest him
@@briansea8324..thanks for telling this..
Really poignant 👌👌👏❤
My lovely dad would sing this to me. I love going to Ireland 🇮🇪 nicest people in the 🌎 ❤❤❤❤❤
I take it your American 🇺🇸 We Irish love America. I dream of visiting there someday.
@@oneman4412 nope born in England. Dad from county sligo. Just love visiting Ireland 🇮🇪. My favourite country 😀
That's such a lovely and fitting tribute, close's the circle if you will.
Thank you to the NYPD choir it was worth the wait.❤🇮🇪☘️
And to Shane- sleep well and thank you ❤ 🙏 ☘️
Peace from Ireland 🇮🇪 ✌🏼
Well done, lads.
Well done, wished they did all the lyrics: If you ever go across the sea to Ireland
Then maybe at the closing of your day
You will sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh
And see the sun go down on Galway Bay
Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream
The women in the meadows making hay
And to sit beside a turf fire in the cabin
And watch the barefoot gossoons at their play
left out ---
For the breezes blowing over the seas from Ireland
Are perfumed by the heather as they blow
And the women in the uplands diggin' prates
Speak a language that the strangers do not know
For the strangers came and tried to teach us their way
They scorned us just for being what we are
But they might as well go chasing after moonbeams
Or light a penny candle from a star --
And if there is going to be a life hereafter
And faith I am sure there's going to be
I will ask my God to let me make my heaven
In that dear land across the Irish sea
Absolut empfehlenswert, Daumen hoch.
Thank you very much. Merry Christmas from Ireland 🇮🇪
Beautiful..so proud to be irish and have all this musical culture in our blood..thank you..😢😢😢❤❤❤
Reminds me of and brings back lovely memories of my grandparents, I was left the music box with the tune of Galway Bay and as kids we took turns to wind the little jewellery box up to play this tune before bedtime when we stayed with them ❤
hello annemarie, I am in Ireland now, we do not forget you, we never forget you, we think of you all the time, think of that song 'the fields of athenry', yours Erin go Bragh
Well done lads. The Irish including some from my family had a tough start in most of the countries they immigrated to. But they succeeded and today we in the Emerald Isle are proud of our diaspora. ☘️☘️☘️
Absolutely beautiful ❤
how beautiful, the Irish know how to make a melancholy tune, i'm born into Celtic heritage so really appreciate this ❤
Just beautifully done!!! ❤❤❤.
💚 Shane McGowan
1957 - 2023 💚
Tears from a stone😢lovely but lonely🥲for millions .. the stranger came and tried to teach us their way. They scorned at us for being what we are But they might as well go chasing after moonbeams or light a penny candle from a star…..❤
What is the meaning of "chasing after moonbeams and light a candle from a star"?
@@manfaifung4351 well u can’t do either .. so trying to teach us THEIR way was a total waste of time.. the stranger was the English …
Oh, I see. The strangers' job was to rule over the place. Thanks so much. 2:45 e@@maureenmartin4730
Absolutely blown away by this. So sweet. RIP Shane.
Well played, lads!
(an Englishman)
Beautiful. Made me long for summer holidays spent in Ireland as a child.... precious memories
Beautiful well done lads what a wonderful piece of music bringing two great tunes together ❤️
This is beautiful. Well done to all involved and thank you. I've watched it several times already. Love it 🎄🙏
Absolutely Wonderful ❤️
Well done boys sang lovely.I am so proud to be Irish.Tina Ireland.
Absolutely performed. So sad about Shane.😢
An absolutely beautiful rendition of this timeless classic. Amazing tribute to a wonderful singer-songwriter...poet extraordinaire. RIP Shane and God Bless!!!!. 🙏☘💚🇮🇪
R.I.P Shane
Absolutely fab makes me proud to be Irish
That has to put a smile on Shane's face, and Kirsty's too, as they dance together in another place to that magnificent melody of Fairytale of New York. What a brilliant idea, and hat's off to the Irish Emigration Museum and the NYPD boys who participated. A great tribute.
This is beautiful. Thank you for posting ❤
Beautiful harmonies. Beautiful singing. 🎶🇮🇪🎶💚🎶🇮🇪🎶
I wonder if Shane McGowan was able to see this, or hear it, before he died. What a moving tribute.
Beautiful, proud to be Irish
Fantastic and so beautiful. Well done all...❤☘️
Bravo! What an amazing and timely tribute.
Fantástico!!!! 👏👏👏🇮🇪🍀🇪🇸
Bless! Have a wonderful 2024, One and all. I hail from Kinsale, co. Corke.
RIP Kristy and Shane
I Love this Voices. Wonderful.
Thank you,
from Bavaria.
I sang this song with my parish choir (St. Vincent Basilica Latrobe PA) years ago for the retirement of a former pastor. I had to translate that "praties " means potatoes.
THANK YOU NYPD BEAUTIFULL ! FROM IRELAND
Honest 😢rip shane . What a fitting tribute. Thank you boys
I'm in tears, for those that have gone, for the imgraint is why I'm alive.. Merry Christmas imgraints, we love you.
So beautiful. Thank you very much. 💗
Fantastic
RIP Shane, he literally died 2 weeks after the NWPD choir first time were singing Galway Bay.
Absolutely beautiful. Impressive. Brought a few tears to my eyes!
Beautiful song reminds me if my darling dad ❤
Well done lads. Love it. Uk
What a beautiful rendition of Galway bay, fair play nypd, unreal song, listening to it and imagining it in my head, from Ireland
Very impressive guys, I think Shane McGowan would be very proud.
I'm filling up watching this in the uk. I'm sure Shane would be impressed. My grandfather was from Charlestown, Co Mayo so I feel a connection. Also I have relatives in America.
Outstanding. Great job, boys.
This is absolutely beautiful 🎄🇮🇪🇺🇸
Thank you, lads. We needed that.
Beautiful god bless u all and thank you shane would of loved it I'm sure merry Xmas to ye all love from Ireland 🇮🇪
Beautiful! RIP Shane 🌹💚 We played this at my Dad's funeral 💚😇💚
Stupendous arrangement and performance by NYPD Choir.
Great job. What a tribute, but what a choir in your own right. Keep it trucking ❤
Thank you so very much for giving your hearts and voices to all of us; those who were blessed by being born Irish, and our friends who stand by us.
A very happy Christmas to all, and the undying hope of a fine new year and the world's a better place when this year is done.
Thank you for posting it! They sang the heck out of it
I love this so much. Well done gentlemen.
(A.N. Other Englishman)
This is amazing and touching!
Well done and thank you for doing this. Fair play to you.
How fantasti that this, happed,. More please, how about the Galway shawl.Great Job boys.
Have been doing some research of my family in Ireland. We are Scottish heritage primarily, English and Irish, quite the combination.
This is freakin awesome. I love this and it is such a fitting tribute.
Y'all ever think that maybe.our boy Shane was making a wild juxtaposition?
Thank you
That was beautiful
This is such a Treat Thank you Officers Stay safe.Merry Christmas.
Ahh brought a tear to my eye... lovely..hi from Wexford Ireland!
Thank you from Germany.
Very classy 👏👏
Beautiful
Wonderful 👏👏👏👏
It was written about the Irish Something like “ Those who God made mad all their wars were merry and all their songs were sad “ God bless all ! A wonderful people
For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their songs are sad.
(From the poem “The ballad of the white horse”, by GK Chesterton)
Love This💚
So beautiful, thank you.
thanks for this!
💚🌲
This is so beautiful!