THE RARE OULD TIMES



Raised on songs & stories

Heroes of renown

The passing tales & glories

That once was Dublin Town

The hallowed halls and houses

The haunting children's rhymes

That once was Dublin City

In the rare ould times.



Chorus:

Ringa Ringa Rosey

As the light declines

I'll remember Dublin City

In the rare ould Times.



My name it is Sean Dempsey

As Dublin as could be

Born hard & late in Pimlico

In a house that ceased to be

My trade I was a cooper

Lost out to redundancy

Like my house that fell to progress

My trades a memory



Chorus:



I courted Peggy Digman

As pretty as you please.

A rage and child of Mary

from the rebel liberties

I lost her to a student chap

With skin as back as coal

When he took her off to Birmingham

She took away my soul.





Chorus.

The years have made me bitter

The gargle 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.



Chorus.



Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey

I can no longer stay

And watch me new glass cages that

Spring up along me Ouay

My mind's too full of memories

Too old to hear new chimes

l'm a part of what was Dublin

In the rare ould times.

Chorus.

@Irish @nostalgia @age

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