Lyrics to Rare Old Times
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Raised on songs & stories, heroes of re-known
The passing tales & glories that once was Dublin town
The hallowed halls & houses, the haunting childrens' rhymes
That once was part of Dublin in the rare old times

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Ring a ring a rosie, as the light declines
I remember Dublin city in the rare old times

My name it is Sean Demspey, as Dublin as can be
Born hard & late in Pimlico, in a house that ceased to be
By trade I was a cooper, lost out to redundancy
Like my house that fell to progress, my trade a memory

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I courted Peggy Dignan, as pretty as you please
A rogue & a child of Mary, from the rebel liberties
I lost her to a student chap with a skin as black as coal
When he took her off to Birmingham, she took away my soul

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Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey, I can no longer stay
& watch the new glass cages, that spring up along the key
My mind's too full of memories, too old to hear new chimes
I'm part of what was Dublin in the rare ould times

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