Intro: strum a D chord for two bars Raised on songs and stor-ies, heroes of renown Ah, the passing tales and glor-ies that once was Dublin town The hallowed halls and hous-es, the haunting childrens' rhymes That once was part of Dublin in the rare ould times (chorus) Ring a ring a ro-sey, as the light de-clines I re-member Dublin city in the rare ould times Tempo change Well my name it is Sean Demp-sey, as Dublin as can be Born hard and late in Pimli-co, in a house that ceased to be (enter electric guitar) By trade I was a coo-per, lost out to redundan-cy Like my house that fell to progress, my trade's a memo-ry And I courted Peggy Dig-nam, as pretty as you please A rogue and child of Ma-ry, from the rebel Liberties I lost her to a student chap, with skin as black as coal When he took her off to Birmingham, she took away my soul (chorus) The years have made me bit-ter, the gargle dims me brain Cause Dublin keeps on chang-ing, 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 (chorus) (interlude, the chords are the same as the chorus ans a verse) Fare thee well sweet Anna Li-ffey, I can no longer stay And watch the new glass ca-ges, that spring up along the quay My mind's too full of memo-ries, too old to hear new chimes (slow here) I'm a part of what was Dublin, in the rare ould times (chorus 2x)