ext_27885 ([identity profile] insomnia.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] matgb 2007-12-19 01:27 am (UTC)

The BBC and/or The Pogues should consider taking the original version of the song and editing in audio from this version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmrUkB6UElY) performed on Top of the Pops by Shane and Kirsty back in 1992, which uses the lyrics "you're cheap and you're haggard" instead of the offending line.

(These are the same lyrics that Maire Brennan used herself a few years back.)

I love the song as originally recorded, but frankly, some people really don't want to hear "cheap lousy faggot" on their Christmas radio, much less have their kids sing along to it or think it's okay for them to call others that name.

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