Rare Ould Times
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Raised on songs and stories
the heroes of reknown
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The passing tales and glories
that once was Dublin-Town
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That hallowed halls and houses,
the haunting children´s rhymes
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That once was Dublin City
in the rare ould times
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Ring a ring a ro - sy as the light declines
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I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times
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Well, me name it is Sean Dempsey,
as Dublin as can be
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Born hard and late in Pimlico
in a house that ceased to be
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By trade I was a cooper,
lost out to redundancy
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Like my house that fell to progress
my trade´s a memory
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Ring a ring a ro - sy as the light declines
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I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times
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And I courted Peggy Dignan,
as pretty as you please
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A rogue and a child of Mary
from the Rebel Liberties
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I lost her to a student chap
with skin as black as coal
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When he took her off to Birmingham,
she took away my soul
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Ring a ring a ro - sy as the light declines
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I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times
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The years have made me bitter,
the cargo dims me brain
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Cause Dublin keeps on changing
and nothing seems the same
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The Pillar and the Met have gone,
the Royal long since pulled down
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As the grey unyielding concrete
makes a city of my town
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Ring a ring a ro - sy as the light declines
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I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times
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Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey,
I can no longer stay
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And watch the new glass cages
that spring up along the quay
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Me mind´s too full of memories,
too old, to hear new chimes
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I´m a part of what was Dublin
in the rare ould times
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Ring a ring a ro - sy as the light declines
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I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times
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