[Verse 1]
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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 children's rhymes,
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that once was Dublin City in the rare old times.
[Chorus]
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Ring a ring a rosy, as the light declines,
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I'll remember Dublin City, in the rare old times.
[Verse 2]
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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 trades a memory.
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And I courted Peggy Dignan, 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.
[Chorus]
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Ring a ring a rosy, as the light declines,
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I'll remember Dublin City, in the rare old times.
[Verse 3]
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The years have made me bitter, the gargle dims my brain,
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'Cause Dublin keeps on changing, and nothing seems the sane.
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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.
[Chorus]
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Ring a ring a rosy, as the light declines,
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I'll remember Dublin City, in the rare old times.
[Verse 4]
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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, to old to hear new chimes,
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I'm part of what was Dublin, in the rare old times.
[Chorus]
C F C Am F
Ring a ring a rosy, as the light declines,
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I'll remember Dublin City, in the rare old times.
C F C Am F
Ring a ring a rosy, as the light declines,
C F C G C
I'll remember Dublin City, in the rare old times.
