[00:06.80]Raised on songs and stories, heroes of renown
[00:13.99]The passing tales and glories that once was Dublin Town
[00:22.37]The hallowed halls and houses, the haunting childrens rhymes
[00:30.64]That once was part of Dublin in the rare ould times
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[00:39.91]Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines
[00:47.31]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times
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[00:57.11]My name it is Sean Dempsey, as Dublin as can be
[01:03.10]Born hard and late in Pimlico, in a house that ceased to be
[01:09.20]By trade I was a cooper, lost out to redundancy
[01:15.19]Like my house that fell to progress, my trade's a memory
[01:21.17]
[01:21.61]And I courted Peggy Dignam, as pretty as you please
[01:27.61]A rogue and child of Mary, from the rebel Liberties
[01:33.60]I lost her to a student chap, with skin as black as coal
[01:39.70]When he took her off to Birmingham, she took away my soul
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[01:46.67]Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines
[01:52.44]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times
[01:58.10]
[01:58.54]The years have made me bitter, the gargle dims me brain
[02:04.65]Cause Dublin keeps on changing, and nothing seems the same
[02:10.63]The Pillar and the Met have gone, the Royal long since pulled down
[02:17.02]As the grey unyielding concrete, makes a city of my town
[02:22.83]
[02:23.76]Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines
[02:29.25]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times
[02:35.34]
[02:56.80]Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey, I can no longer stay
[03:03.21]And watch the new glass cages, that spring up along the quay
[03:09.10]My mind's too full of memories, too old to hear new chimes
[03:16.72]I'm a part of what was Dublin, in the rare ould times
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[03:26.94]Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines
[03:32.09]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times
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[03:38.82]Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines
[03:44.40]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times
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[03:50.61]I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times
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