Cheap Lousy huh??
A friend of mine has returned from a holiday in sunny California with a copy of KT Tunstall's Christmas EP.
Very nice it is too in a "holiday season" kinda way. However my problem with this particular slice of festive fun is with her version of Fairy Tale Of New York. It's a fairly straight cover duet with Ed Harcourt and so far so good...till the insults start to fly...
"You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy blagger"
err...excuse me? You cheap lousy what who now???
Good god woman if you are going to cover the best and least sentimental christmas song ever then have the decency not to bowlderise it!
I even went back over it and while I THINK Mr Harcourt sings the line "You're an old slut on junk" correctly he's given it such a drunken slur it's hard to tell.
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Haggard?
I can beat that!
Ronan Keating covered it about 5 years ago and changed the line to "You're cheap and you're haggard"!
Perhaps we should look for alternatives?
You scumbag, you maggot, you look like a rabbit...
You scumbag, you maggot, you're such a bad habit...
Got any more?
you'd expect that
from the Oirish talent vacumn...
and once you've called a Scumbag & Maggot is Faggot an insult too far?
It has just been pointed out to me that the KT record was intended as a US release only so that may explain the "clean up"
Who me?
Are you calling Ronan Keating an Oirish talent vacuum or was that directed at me?!!
It works in both cases, I suppose!
Who else...
except for Mr Keating...I'd never insult a fellow Word reader ;)
For completeness sake
Do they finish the exchange correctly?
"merry christmas may ARSE I pray god it's my last?"
Xmas my Arse!
I just had another listen and she does indeed finish the verse in the delightful "Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God it's our last"
It think it's...
"Cheap Lousy Blaggard" she's singing but I couldn't be sure. I think it's explained by the fact that's it's a US supermarket-only release, and the likes of Walmart (this is actually a Target release) are notoriously concerned about the welfare of the nation and the pernicious influence of naughty words in music...