Farewell To Dublin

To the city of our fathers

Where friend and foe had gathered

Where the Norman, Dane and Saxon

Had mingled with the Gael

Administered the kingdom

But soon the Pale was reeling

To cradle Irish freedom

In dear old Dublin town

Fare thee well until we meet again

Down by the Liffey water

I'll bid farewell to Dublin

And her streets of cobblestones

I'm going away to leave you

Me friends and all the girls too

'Til I return to see you

Farewell old Dublin town

Now her poets they were many

Her writers they were plenty

There was Swift with all his little folk

And Joyce and Molly Bloom

Her characters and unsung gang

There's forty coats and El Bang Bang

And Zazie Moss who always sang

Of dear old Dublin town

Fare thee well until we meet again

Down by the Liffey water

I'll bid farewell to Dublin

And her streets of cobblestones

I'm going away to leave you

Me friends and all the girls too

'Til I return to see you

Farewell old Dublin town

I remember in my childhood

Your mountains and your wildwood

I'd heard about your heroes

In the classroom as a boy

Of Thomas Street where Emmet died

In Sackville Place they fought with pride

Of the times when brave Wolfe Tone did ride

In dear old Dublin town

Fare thee well until we meet again

Down by the Liffey water

I'll bid farewell to Dublin

And her streets of cobblestones

I'm going away to leave you

Me friends and all the girls too

'Til I return to see you

Farewell old Dublin town