Dublin In My Tears-Patsy Watchorn

[00:08.48]I traveled many lands and I still can't understand [00:17.19]How sad you have become on my return [00:25.87]Your poor heart is filled with care sad and though they left you there [00:34.69]Your once bright eyes with sorrow softly burn [00:43.18]I can even sense the change in the sound of children's games [00:52.24]And dreams and youth's ambitions have all turned to doubts and fears [01:00.85]It's an age of wealth I'm told but I never felt so old [01:09.61]As recall old Dublin in my tears [01:18.37]All the faces that I meet as I rove each one way street [01:27.15]Reflect the empty statements of the times [01:35.88]And the old cathedral bell can't be heard above the swell [01:44.54]For the years erase the message in her chimes [01:52.92]All my childhood friends are gone like the streets where I was born [02:02.00]And the time that it has taken it doesn't seem so many years [02:10.82]They have faded in the gloom with sad Kelly of the Coome [02:19.17]Like a ghost of dear old Dublin in my tears [02:28.21]There were times when jobs were few there were hungry days we knew [02:36.84]Some days so bad their memory I've cursed [02:45.62]And the prayer I said to God there on board the Prince's MOD [02:54.06]That our children would restore the pride we lost [03:02.75]But the past they all forsake and they're dancing at your wake [03:11.77]On the heart of Dublin's dying and nobody really cares [03:20.29]And the fools as they pass by laugh to see an old man cry [03:29.06]I can't forget old Dublin in my tears [03:37.69]Gather round brave men and true though our numbers they be few [03:46.70]We'll drink one toast before I cross the foam [03:55.11]For soon in London's dark domain I recall how I became [04:04.08]No more a stranger there than here at home [04:12.68]Now the Liffey flows along and I listen for her song [04:21.42]And the voice of young James Larkin seems to echo in my ear [04:30.36]But it's just the rafter ring to their requiem I sing [04:39.10]Farewell to dear old Dublin in my tears [04:47.56]All I can't for candle dublin in my tears [05:00.10]