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A Hard Old Station: Christmas With the Popical Island Showband

by Popical Island

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I'm delivering the news to you: Santa Claus is middle-aged and blue He shed his red coat and his boots for pyjamas, training shoes And it was in that state I ventured out, under the influence of a famous stout To get the holster and the gun from beneath your auntie's bed, but it was gone Chorus: Well it's a hard old station, woah-oh Working the high line way up in the sky And asking time to stand still When it's so impatient to move Imaging Wyatt Earp without a gun, he'd be the damsel in distress, yessum' The night before the OK Corral he's unarmed and I'm unfit to call him 'pal' Chorus Then a light goes on in a Parnell St. huckster shop All these places cater for cowboys, one set is like the other It'll do just ot send me to feathers Chorus
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Well I’ve been messed up many times by the curse of the affliction I’ve been messed up many times by the curse of the affliction Give me your hand here across this kitchen And if you see me osified Or see the pilot light extinguished from my eyes, Ha ha, hey hey, hee hee I’ve been untangling coloured lights and covering things with shiny paper I’ve been untangling coloured lights and covering things with shiny paper Should I hit my head here on this table And should you find me blottified Watching television full of mirth and wine Ha ha, hey hey, hee hee But what’s this look of judgment, and what’s this cold conjecture? I came here just to talk to you and maybe raise a glass with you Not get a pop psychology lecture I’ve been through summers in the snow and every winter in July I’ve given every drop of blood for you I’ve shook myself dry And I ask myself why So I’ve been reaching for the jug and it’s been emptying its joy in me I’ve been reaching for the jug and it’s been emptying its joy in me And time, yes, it’s starting to toy with me And if you see me falling down Forming a fading grey snow angel on the ground Ha ha, hey hey, hee hee

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A Hard Old Station features two songs performed by the Popical Island Showband (21 people, wow!) and recorded by Fiachra McCarthy (pantone247 at gmail dot com), with additional songs written and recorded by Tieranniesaur, Yeh Deadlies, Walpurgis Family and Jonny Fun and the ...Hesitations. All proceeds go to www.camphill.ie and www.canteen.ie. Mastered by Stephen Quinn.

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released December 13, 2010

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Bockety POP collective out of Dublin, Ireland.

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