Our Whole World

Rare Ould Times

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Raised on songs and stories the heroes of renown
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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