Built my dreams around you
We'd end up in a fight
When I first took your hand
I was handsome, you were pretty
I put them with my own
In the drunk tank
Well, I promised you Broadway
It's no place for the old
And I'd pray as you'd yell
Won't see another one
Was waiting for you
Still singing, 'Galway Bay'
For Christmas day
Can't make it all alone
The rare 'Old Mountain Dew'
And the boys of the NYPD choir
But the wind blows right through you
Sinatra was swinging
Be a bum, it was a clutter
It's Christmas eve again
All the drunks, they were singing
That I took your dreams from you
And smell like the gutter
That as train rattled past
Say, so could anyone
An old man said to me
And we kissed on a corner
Said, "Happy Christmas
All your fingers were blue
When the band finished playing
I can see a better time
Every cold chilly night
And the bells were ringing out
But I kept them with me, babe
I turned my face away
Danced through the night
They got cars, big as bars
Christmas day
While sad broken promises
Got on a lucky one
And dreamed about you
Came in eighteen to one
When you first found me
Were singing, 'Galway Bay'
I had a feeling that years
I'm an old man now
Lay with the trash
So I'll sing a song
And sleep when I'm through
I won't see another one
And the boys of the NYPD choir
For me and you
Queen of New York city
I love you, baby
I could have been someone
They got rivers of gold
They howled out for more
Dream of another life
And the bells were ringing out
Then he sang a song
When all our dreams come true"
