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Raised on songs and stories, heroes of renown
The passing tales and glories that once was Dublin town
The hallowed halls and houses, the haunting children's rhymes
That once was Dublin city in the rare ould times
Ring a ring a rosie, as the light declines
I'll remember Dublin city in the rare ould times
My name it is Sean Dempsey, as Dublin as could be
Born hard and late in Pimlico in a house that's ceased to be
By trade I was a cooper, lost out to redundancy
Like my house that fell to progress, my trade's a memory
Ring a ring a rosie, as the light declines
I'll remember Dublin city in the rare ould times
And 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 skin as black as coal
When he took her off to Birmingham, he took away my soul
Ring a ring a rosie, as the light declines
I'll remember Dublin city in the rare ould times
The years have made me bitter, the gargle's dimmed me brain
'Cause Dublin keeps on changing and nothing seems the same
The pillar and the net have gone, the Royal Domesday's pulled down
As the grey unyielding concrete makes a city of my town
Ring a ring a rosie, as the light declines
I'll remember Dublin city in the rare ould times
So fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey, I can no longer stay
To watch the new glass cages that spring up along Wood Quay
My mind's too full of memories, too old to hear new chimes
I'm a part of what was Dublin in the rare ould times
Ring a ring a rosie, as the light declines
I'll remember Dublin city in the rare ould times