Dubliners - Dublin In The Rare Old Times lyrics

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Raised on songs & stories, heroes of re-known<br />

The passing tales & glories that once was Dublin town<br />

The hallowed halls & houses, the haunting childrens' rhymes<br />

That once was Dublin city in the rare ould times<br />

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Ring a ring a rosie, as the light declines<br />

I remember Dublin city in the rare ould times<br />

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My name it is Sean Demspey, as Dublin as can be<br />

Born hard & late in Pimlico, in a house that ceased to be<br />

By trade I was a cooper, lost out to redundancy<br />

Like my house that fell to progress, my trade's a memory<br />

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& I courted Peggy Dignan, as pretty as you please<br />

A rogue & a child of Mary, from the rebel liberties<br />

I lost her to a student chap with a skin as black as coal<br />

When he took her off to Birmingham, she took away my soul<br />

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The years have made me bitter, the gargle dims my brain<br />

'Cause Dublin keeps on changing & nothing stays the same<br />

The Pillar & the Met have gone, the Royal long since pulled down<br />

As the great unyielding concrete makes a city of my town<br />

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Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey, I can no longer stay<br />

& watch the new glass cages, that spring up along the quay<br />

My mind's too full of memories, too old to hear new chimes<br />

I'm part of what was Dublin in the rare ould times<br />

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