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The Rare Old Times Karaoke - Paddy Reilly & The Dublin City Ramblers

This title is a cover version of The Rare Old Times as made famous by Paddy Reilly

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About

Tempo: variable (around 111 BPM)

In the same key as the original: B♭

Duration: 04:42 - Sample at: 01:38

Release date: 1991
Genres: Celtic, Folk, In English
Original songwriter: Pete St-John

All files available for download are backing tracks, they're not the original music.

Lyrics The Rare Old Times

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 rosey as the light declines
I 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 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 rosey
Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines as the light declines
I remember Dublin City
I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times 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 rosey
Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines as the light declines
I remember Dublin City
I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times in the rare ould times
The years have made me bitter
The gargle's dimmed me brain
'Cos Dublin keeps on changing and nothing seems the same
The Pillar and the Met have gone
The Royal long since pulled down
As the grey unyielding concrete makes a city of my town
Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines
I 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 the Quay
My mind's too full of memories
Too old to hear new chimes
I'm a part of what was Dublin
I'm a part of what was Dublin in the rare ould times in the rare ould times
Ring a ring a rosey
Ring a ring a rosey as the light declines as the light declines
I remember Dublin City
I remember Dublin City in the rare ould times in the rare ould times

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