The Dubliners – Dublin In The Rare Old Times (Guitar)

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Raised on songs and stories

            C    G
Heroes of reknown

                      C   G   
The passing tales and glories

              C      D
That once was Dublin town

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The hallowed halls and houses

    Em                  C     
The haunting children's rhymes

     G             C    
That once was part Dublin 

       D        G
In the rare old times

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Ring a ring a rosie

               C     
As the light declines

    G             C G
I remember Dublin City

       D        G
In the rare old times

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My name it is Sean Dempsey

                   C  G
As Dublin as could be

                      C    G
Born hard and late in Pimlico

                  C         D
In a house that's ceased to be

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By trade I was a cooper

     Em             C
Lost out to redundancy

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Like my house that fell to progress

   D             G
My trade's a memory

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I courted Peggy Diagnam

                 C     G
As pretty as you please

                  C G
A gentle child of Mary

               C    D
From the rebel liberties

  G             C       G
I lost her to a student chap

     Em               C
With skin as black as coal

        G               C
When he took her off to Birmingham

    D            G
She took away my soul

G             C  G  Em
Ring a ring a rosie

               C     
As the light declines

    G             C G
I remember Dublin City

       D        G
In the rare old times

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The years have made me bitter

                    C     G
The gargles dims me brain

                       C   G
'Cause Dublin keeps on changing

            C         D
And nothing stays the same

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The Pillar and the Met have gone

    Em                      C
The Royal long since pulled down

       G                    C
As the great and unyielding concrete

        D          G
Makes a city of my town

G             C  G  Em
Ring a ring a rosie

               C     
As the light declines

    G             C G
I remember Dublin City

       D        G
In the rare old times

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Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey

                C    G
I can no longer stay

                        C G
And watch the new glass cages

               C         D
That spring up along the quay

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My mind's too full of memories

    Em              C
Too old to hear new chimes

      G                C
I'm a part of what was Dublin

       D        G
In the rare old times

G             C  G  Em
Ring a ring a rosie

               C     
As the light declines

    G             C G
I remember Dublin City

       D        G
In the rare old times