It was christmas eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me

Won't see another one

Then he 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 had a feeling that years
For me and you


Said "happy christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time

When all our dreams come true"

They got cars big as bars

They got rivers of gold
But the wind blows right through you
It's no place for the old


When i first took your hand
All your fingers were blue

Well i promised you broadway
Was waiting for you


I was handsome you were pretty
Queen of new york city
When the band finished playing

They howled out for more

Sinatra was swinging

All the drunks they were singing
And we kissed on a corner
Danced through the night


And the boys of the nypd choir
Were singing 'galway bay'

And the bells were ringing out
For christmas day


Be a bum it was a clutter
And smell like the gutter
While sad broken promises

Lay with the trash

Every cold chilly night

We'd end up in a fight
And i'd pray as you'd yell
That as train rattled past


And the boys of the nypd choir
Still singing 'galway bay'

And the bells were ringing out
Christmas day


I could have been someone
Say so could anyone
That i took your dreams from you

When you first found me

But i kept them with me babe

I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
Built my dreams around you


It's christmas eve again
In the drunk tank

I'm an old man now
I won't see another one


So i'll sing a song
And sleep when i'm through
Dream of another life
Where all our dreams came true