Happy Christmas to all at Booman Tribune!
Lyrics
It was Christmas eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me: won’t see another one
And then they sang a song
The rare old mountain dew
I turned my face away and dreamed about you
Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I’ve got a feeling
This year’s for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
Where all our dreams come true.
They got cars big as bars
They got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It’s no place for the old
When you first took my hand on a cold Christmas eve
You promised me Broadway was waiting for me
You were handsome you were pretty
Queen of new york city when the band finished playing they yelled out for more
Sinatra was swinging all the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night.
And the boys from the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay
And the bells were ringing out for Christmas day.
You’re a bum you’re a punk
You’re an old s*** on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse I pray god it’s our last.
And the boys of the NYPD choir’s still singing Galway Bay
And the bells were ringing out For Christmas day.
I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can’t make it out alone
I’ve built my dreams around you
And the boys of the NYPD choir’s still singing Galway Bay
And the bells are ringing out For Christmas day.
Songwriters: Jem Finer, Shane Macgowan
What’s your secret for embedding YouTube videos here? Every time I try I get blocked by Sucuri.
Eurotrib has a macro for inserting videos here. Try inserting one in a Eurotib comment with it. It generates the insert code and then you can copy and past it to Booman where you can strip out macro text.
As you could see, I have no problems with macros in ET. And you incited me to finally get an ET account! I have experimented with this same macro at ET for embedded videos here, and have had no luck, and not sure if there is some subtle difference between BT and ET that I am not picking up on, or if I am just simply committing some sort of error even though I am replicating exactly what I tried at ET (the latter would not surprise me).
I’ll keep playing around with it. Thanks for your suggestions! And Happy Holidays.
I simply copy and paste the code generated by the ET macro to Booman. When you then preview comment it works but with some macro text visible which you can delete prior to posting.
I tested this macro out in ET. I can preview the video perfectly well there. No worries, so far. Now I am going to paste the macro into this comment below, and see what happens:
((youtube JrIHEdKa0x0))
No video preview visible, so not sure what that means yet. Let’s post and find out. Sorry to clutter your otherwise wonderful diary with technical questions. I swear, I am lucky I can turn on a computer most days!
The macro itself doesn’t work on Booman – just the embed code it generates on ET when copied to BT.
Okay. I think I get it. I’ll play around with that and see how that goes. Thanks!
Now that is more like it!
And thanks for the welcome to ET. I will probably mostly lurk, mainly because it seems more fitting for me to listen to my fellow progressives in Europe for now, although if I do think I have a relevant comment I will certainly weigh in and go from there.
At some point I’ll be curious about posting diaries and such. Again if something seems relevant on both sides of the Atlantic, I might want to do a bit of cross-posting myself. Sort of wanting to revisit a few things about authoritarianism at some point over the next year.
More than welcome to comment/post on ET and I will be happy to engage & recommend etc. We need more posters and there used to be a lot more stuff on US topics or topics covered from a US angle. I’ve given up writing on US politics since Trump! So we need more informed commentary…
I’ll start thinking of a few things that could make for appropriate diaries. Admittedly, my “expertise” on US politics and life in general is really just simply a matter of I live here. That said, most of us who blog are really just regular folks trying to make sense of this particular dark time.
Its been more years than I care to count since I last set foot in Manhattan. Here’s the first thing that tune brought to mind. “There are eight million stories in the Naked City and this is one of them.”