The Rare Auld Times-Luke Kelly/Ronnie Drew

[ti:The Rare Auld Times] [ar:Luke Kelly] [al:Definitive Pub Songs Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Rare Auld Times - Luke Kelly/Ronnie Drew [00:04.05]Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines [00:11.42] [00:12.15]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times [00:20.82] [00:24.83]Raised on songs and stories heroes of renown [00:32.29] [00:33.44]The passing tales and glories that once was Dublin Town [00:41.79] [00:42.67]The hallowed halls and houses the haunting childrens rhymes [00:51.20] [00:51.91]That once was Dublin City in the rare ould times [01:00.87] [01:02.23]Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines [01:09.44] [01:10.23]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times [01:19.06] [01:22.07]My name it is Sean Dempsey as Dublin as can be [01:30.87] [01:31.47]Born hard and late in Pimlico [01:36.14]In a house that ceased to be [01:40.17] [01:40.88]By trade I was a cooper lost out to redundancy [01:49.90]Like my house that fell [01:52.75]To progress my trade's a memory [01:58.62] [02:01.92]And I courted Peggy Dignam [02:06.38] [02:07.20]As pretty as you please [02:10.70] [02:11.41]A rogue and child of Mary [02:15.74]From the rebel Liberties [02:20.12] [02:20.80]I lost her to a student chap [02:25.42]With skin as black as coal [02:29.72]When he took her off to Birmingham [02:34.67]She took away my soul [02:39.23] [02:40.39]Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines [02:47.57] [02:48.60]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times [02:57.72] [03:10.16]The years have made me bitter [03:14.65] [03:15.63]The gargle dims me brain [03:19.34]Cause Dublin keeps on changing [03:24.28]And nothing seems the same [03:28.12] [03:29.17]The Pillar and the Met have gone [03:33.90]The Royal long since pulled down [03:37.74] [03:38.30]As the grey unyielding concrete [03:42.92]Makes a city of my town [03:47.04] [03:48.89]Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines [03:56.56] [03:57.07]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times [04:06.14] [04:08.72]Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey [04:14.00]I can no longer stay [04:17.56] [04:18.27]And watch the new glass cages [04:22.43]That spring up along the quay [04:26.70] [04:27.58]My mind's too full of memories [04:32.26]Too old to hear new chimes [04:35.99] [04:36.67]I'm part of what was Dublin [04:40.83]In the rare ould times [04:45.67] [04:47.26]Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines [04:54.82] [04:55.39]I remember Dublin City in the rare old times [05:04.30] [05:05.44]Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines [05:14.12]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times