The Rare Auld Times-Luke Kelly

[00:04.14]Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines [00:12.19]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times [00:24.49]Raised on songs and stories heroes of renown [00:33.61]The passing tales and glories that once was Dublin Town [00:42.77]The hallowed halls and houses the haunting childrens rhymes [00:51.78]That once was Dublin City in the rare ould times [01:02.29]Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines [01:10.31]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times [01:22.25]My name it is Sean Dempsey as Dublin as can be [01:31.54]Born hard and late in Pimlico in a house that ceased to be [01:41.16]By trade I was a cooper lost out to redundancy [01:50.05]Like my house that fell to progress my trade's a memory [02:01.72]And I courted Peggy Dignam as pretty as you please [02:11.29]A rogue and child of Mary from the rebel Liberties [02:20.78]I lost her to a student chap with skin as black as coal [02:29.97]When he took her off to Birmingham she took away my soul [02:40.63]Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines [02:48.74]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times [02:59.77] [03:10.18]The years have made me bitter the gargle dims me brain [03:19.80]Cause Dublin keeps on changing and nothing seems the same [03:29.18]The Pillar and the Met have gone the Royal long since pulled down [03:38.45]As the grey unyielding concrete makes a city of my town [03:49.07]Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines [03:57.03]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times [04:08.67]Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey I can no longer stay [04:18.26]And watch the new glass cages that spring up along the quay [04:27.70]My mind's too full of memories too old to hear new chimes [04:36.77]I'm part of what was Dublin in the rare ould times [04:47.46]Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines [04:55.28]I remember Dublin City in the rare old times [05:05.79]Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines [05:14.16]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times [05:23.46]