The Rare Auld Times-The Dubliners

[ti:The Rare Auld Times] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:20 Greatest Ever Irish Ballads - Volume 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Rare Auld Times - The Dubliners [00:03.33]Ring a ring a rosie as the light declines [00:11.49]I remember Dublin city in the rare old times [00:21.62] [00:24.10]Raised on songs and stories heroes of re-known [00:32.79]The passing tales and glories that once was Dublin town [00:42.02]The hallowed halls and houses the haunting childrens' rhymes [00:51.26]That once was Dublin city in the rare old times [01:00.81] [01:01.52]Ring a ring a rosie as the light declines [01:09.50]I remember Dublin city in the rare old times [01:18.83] [01:21.40]My name it is Sean Demspey as Dublin as can be [01:30.80]Born hard and late in Pimlico in a house that ceased to be [01:40.23]By trade I was a cooper lost out to redundancy [01:49.30]Like my house that fell to progress my trade's a memory [01:58.76] [02:01.25]And I callled Peggy Dignan as pretty as you please [02:10.56]A rogue and a child of Mary from the rebel liberties [02:20.08]I lost her to a student chap with a skin as black as coal [02:29.13]When he took her off to Birmingham she took away my soul [02:39.82]Ring a ring a rosie as the light declines [02:47.97]I remember Dublin city in the rare old times [02:57.56] [03:09.57]The years have made me bitter the gargle dims me brain [03:19.12]'Cause Dublin keeps on changing and nothing stays the same [03:28.58]The Pillar and the Met have gone the Royal long since pulled down [03:37.65]As the great unyielding concrete makes a city of my town [03:47.75] [03:48.34]Ring a ring a rosie as the light declines [03:56.28]I remember Dublin city in the rare old times [04:05.67] [04:08.14]Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey I can no longer stay [04:17.40]And watch the new glass cages that spring up along the quay [04:26.95]My mind's too full of memories too old to hear new chimes [04:36.02]I'm part of what was Dublin in the rare old times [04:46.62]Ring a ring a rosie as the light declines [04:54.69]I remember Dublin city in the rare old times [05:04.96]Ring a ring a rosie as the light declines [05:13.44]I remember Dublin city in the rare old times