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Raised on songs and stories, heroes of renown |
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The passing tales and glories that once was Dublin Town |
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The hallowed halls and houses, the haunting childrens rhymes |
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That once was part of Dublin in the rare ould times |
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Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines |
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I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times |
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My name it is Sean Dempsey, as Dublin as can be |
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Born hard and late in Pimlico, in a house that ceased to be |
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By trade I was a cooper, lost out to redundancy |
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Like my house that fell to progress, my trade's a memory |
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And I courted Peggy Dignam, as pretty as you please |
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A rogue and child of Mary, from the rebel Liberties |
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I lost her to a student chap, with skin as black as coal |
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When he took her off to Birmingham, she took away my soul |
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Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines |
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I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times |
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The years have made me bitter, the gargle dims me brain |
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Cause Dublin keeps on changing, and nothing seems the same |
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The Pillar and the Met have gone, the Royal long since pulled down |
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As the grey unyielding concrete, makes a city of my town |
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Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines |
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I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times |
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Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey, I can no longer stay |
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And watch the new glass cages, that spring up along the quay |
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My mind's too full of memories, too old to hear new chimes |
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I'm a part of what was Dublin, in the rare ould times |
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Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines |
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I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times |
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Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines |
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I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times |
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I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times |
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