Daniel O' Donnell - The Rare Ould Times lyrics

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Raised on songs and stories

the heroes of reknown

The passing tales and glories

that once was Dublin-Town

That hallowed halls and houses,

the haunting children´s rhymes

That once war Dublin City

in the rare ould times

Ring a ring a rosy as the light declines

I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times

Well, me name it is Sean Dempsey,

as Dublin as can be

Born hard and late in Pimlico

in a house that ceased to be

By trade I was a cooper,

lost out to redundancy

Like my house that fell to progress

my trade´s a memory

And I courted Peggy Dignan,

as pretty as you please

A rogue and a child of Mary

from the Rebel Liberties

I lost her to a student chap

with skin as black as coal

When he took her off to Birmingham,

she took away my soul

Ring a ring a rosy as the light declines

I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times

The years have made me bitter,

the cargo dims me brain

´Cause Dublin keeps on changing

and nothing seems the same

The Pillar and the Met have gone,

the Royal long since pulled down

As the grey unyielding concrete

makes a city of my town

Ring a ring a rosy as the light declines

I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times

Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey,

I can no longer stay

And watch the new glass cages

that spring up along the quay

Me mind´s too full of memories,

too old, to hear new chimes

I´m a part of what was Dublin

in the rare ould times

Ring a ring a rosy as the light declines

I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times