Karaoké The Rare Old Times Paddy Reilly & The Dublin City Ramblers

Raised on songs and stories

Heroes of renown

The passing tales and 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

Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines

I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times

My name it is Sean Dempsey

As Dublin as could 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

Ring a ring a rosey

Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines as the light declines

I remember Dublin City

I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times in the rare ould times

And I courted Peggy Dignan

As pretty as you please

A rogue, 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 he took away my soul

Ring a ring a rosey

Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines as the light declines

I remember Dublin City

I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times in the rare ould times

The years have made me bitter

The gargle's dimmed me brain

'Cos 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 rosey as the light declines

I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times

So fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey

I can no longer stay

To watch the new glass cages that spring up along the Quay

My mind's too full of memories

Too old to hear new chimes

I'm a part of what was Dublin

I'm a part of what was Dublin in the rare ould times in the rare ould times

Ring a ring a rosey

Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines as the light declines

I remember Dublin City

I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times in the rare ould times