Chords for The Rare Old Times - Dublin City Ramblers

_ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ Rays on songs [Eb] and _
[Bb] stories, _ heroes [Gm] of renown,
[Bb] The passing tales [Eb] and _
[Bb] glories [F] that once was Dublin town.
_ [Bb] The hallowed [Eb] halls and [Bb] houses, the haunting _ [Gm] children's rhymes,
[Bb] That once was Dublin [Eb] city [Bb] in [F] the _ rare [Bb] old times.
_ _ Ring-a-ring [Eb]-a _
[Bb]-rosie, _ as the [Gm] light _ [Bb] declines,
I'll remember Dublin [Eb] city [Bb] in [F] the rare [Bb] old times.
My name, it is [Eb] John _
[Bb] Dempsey, as Dublin [Gm] as could _ be,
[Bb] Born hard and late [Eb] in _
[Bb] Pimlico, [F] in a house that ceased to [C] be.
[Bb] By trade I [Eb] was a [Bb] cooper, lost out to _ [Gm] redundancy,
_ [Bb] Like my house that fell [Eb] to _
[Bb] progress [F] by trade to _ [Bb] memory.
_ And I courted [Eb] Peggy _
[Bb] Dignam, as pretty [Gm] as you please,
[Bb] A rogue and child [Eb] of [Bb] Mary, [F] from the rebel _ liberties.
_ [Bb] I lost her [Eb] to a [Bb] student, she up, with skin as black [Gm] as coal,
[Bb] When he took her [Eb] off to [Bb] Birmingham, _ [F] she took away [Bb] my _ soul.
_ Ring-a [Eb]-ring-a [Bb] _ -rosie, as the [Gm] light _ declines,
[Bb] I'll remember [Eb] Dublin city [Bb] _ in [F] the rare _ [Bb] old _ times.
The years have [Eb] made me [Bb] bitter, the gargles dimmed [Gm] me brain,
[Bb] Cos Dublin keeps on changing, [F] and nothing seems the same.
[Eb] [Bb] The pillar and [Eb] the met [Bb] have gone, the rye long since [Gm] fallen down,
[Bb] As the grey-horn [Eb] yielding [Bb] concrete makes [F] a city of [Bb] my town.
_ _ Ring-a [Eb]-ring-a [Bb]-rosie, _ as the [Gm] light _ declines,
[Bb] I'll remember [Eb] Dublin city [Bb] in [F] the rare [Bb] old _ _ times.
Fare thee well, sweet [Eb] Anna _ [Bb] Liffey, I can no [Gm] longer stay,
_ [Bb] And watch the new [Eb] glass [Bb] ages that [F] spring up along decay.
_ _ [Bb] My mind's too full [Eb] of [Bb] memories, too old to hear [Gm] new _ chimes,
[Bb] I'm a part of what [Eb] was Dublin [Bb] in [F] the _ rare [Bb] old times. _ _
Ring-a [Eb]-ring-a [Bb] _ -rosie, as the [Gm] light _ declines,
[Bb] I'll remember Dublin [Eb] city [Bb] in [F] the rare [Bb] old times. _ _
Ring-a-ring [Eb]-a [Bb] _ _ -rosie, as the [Gm] light _ declines,
[Bb] I'll remember _ [Eb] Dublin city [Bb] _ [F] in the rare _ old [Bb] _ times. _
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