Rare Ould Times-Dubliners/Luke Kelly

[ti:Rare Ould Times] [ar:Dubliners/Luke Kelly] [al:Classic Irish Folk, Vol. 1 (20 Traditional Songs & Melodies)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rare Ould Times - Dubliners/Luke Kelly [00:01.23]Lyricist：St-John [00:02.46]Composer：St-John [00:03.70]Ring a ring a rosie as the light declines [00:12.28]I'll remember Dublin city [00:16.70]In the rare ould times [00:24.81]Raised on songs stories heroes of renown [00:33.40]The passing tales glories that once was Dublin town [00:42.63]The hallowed halls houses the haunting childrens' rhymes [00:51.43]That once was Dublin city in the rare ould times [01:01.77]Ring a ring a rosie as the light declines [01:09.77]I'll remember Dublin city [01:14.45]In the rare ould times [01:21.50]My name it is Sean Dempsey [01:26.63]As Dublin as could be [01:30.82]Born hard late in Pimlico [01:35.57]In a house that's ceased to be [01:40.25]By trade I was a cooper lost out to redundancy [01:49.07]Like my house that fell [01:51.65]To progress my trade's a memory [02:00.99]And [02:01.09]I courted Peggy Dignan as pretty as you please [02:10.26]A rogue a child of Mary from the rebel Liberties [02:19.55]I lost her to a student chap [02:24.06]With a skin as black as coal [02:28.57]When he took her off to Birmingham she took away my soul [02:39.04]Ring a ring a rosie as the light declines [02:46.99]I'll remember Dublin city [02:51.64]In the rare ould times [03:08.30]The years have made me bitter the gargle dims me brain [03:18.02]'Cause Dublin keeps on changing nothing seems the same [03:27.21]The Pillar the Met have gone the Royal long since pulled down [03:36.34]As the grey unyielding concrete makes a city of my town [03:46.91]Ring a ring a rosie as the light declines [03:54.75]I'll remember Dublin city [03:59.31]In the rare ould times [04:06.50]Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey I can no longer stay [04:15.93]Watch the new glass cages that spring up along the quay [04:24.78]My mind's too full of memories too old to hear new chimes [04:34.00]I'm a part of what was Dublin in the rare ould times [04:44.55]Ring a ring a rosie as the light declines [04:52.68]I'll remember Dublin city [04:57.04]In the rare ould times [05:02.82]Ring a ring a rosie as the light declines [05:11.08]I'll remember Dublin city [05:15.47]In