Key: A major
Verse 1
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Em
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D
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Music
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Based on songs and stories
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Em
Heroes of renown
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The passing tales and glories
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That once was Dublin town
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The hallowed halls and houses
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That once was Dublin city
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In the rare old times
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Ring -a -ring -a -rosie
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As the light it lights
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in the rare old days
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Oh, me name it is Sean Dempsey
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Born hard and late in Pimlico
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An 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,
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my trade's a memory
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as pretty as you please
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A rogue and child of Mary
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From the rebel liberties
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I lost her to a student lad
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With skin as black as coal
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When he took her off to Birmingham
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She took away my soul
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Ring -a -ring -a -rosie
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As the light that glides
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in the rare old times
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Oh the years have made me bitter
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and drink has dimmed my brain
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For Dublin keeps on changin'
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and nothin' seems the same
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The Metropolitan Pillar are gone,
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As that grey unyielding concrete
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makes the city of my town
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So good -bye, Anna Lippy,
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And watch the new glass cages
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that rise up along the quay
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My mind's too full of memories,
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too old to hear new chimes
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I'm a part of what was Dublin
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in the rare old times
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Ring -a -ring -a -rosie,
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as the light declines
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in the rare old times
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Ring -a -ring -a -rosie,
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as the light at length
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in the rare old times
Outro 1
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ChordsG C Em D A
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