Key: B major
Verse 1
B
E
B
G#m
Ring a ring a rosie
B
E
as the lights declines,
B
F#
E
B
I remember Dublin city
B
Verse 2
E
B
Raised on songs and stories,
G#m
B
E
heroes of renown,
B
F#
E
B
The passing tales and glories,
B
E
B
The hallowed halls and houses,
G#m
B
G#m
the haunting children's rhymes,
B
F#
E
That once was Dublin city,
B
F#
B
in the Rare Oul Times.
Verse 3
E
B
G#m
Ring a ring a rosie
B
E
as the lights declines,
B
F#
E
I remember Dublin city
B
F#
B
in the rare oul times.
Verse 4
B
E
B
My name it is Sean Dempsey
G#m
B
E
as Dublin as could be
B
F#
E
B
Born hard and late in Pimlico
B
E
B
My trade I was a cooper,
G#m
B
E
lost out to redundancy
B
F#
E
Like my house that fell to progress
B
F#
B
my trade's a memory
Verse 5
B
E
B
And I courted Peggy
G#m
B
E
Dignan, as pretty as you please,
B
F#
E
A rogue and child of Mary,
B
F#
from the rebel liberties,
B
E
B
I lost her to a student chap,
G#m
F#
E
with skin as black as coal,
B
F#
E
When he took her off to Birmingham,
B
F#
B
she took away my soul.
Verse 6
E
B
G#m
Ring a ring a rosie
B
E
as the lights declines,
B
F#
E
B
F#
I remember Dublin city in the rare oul
B
F#
times.
G#m
B
F#
Verse 7
B
E
B
The years have made me bitter,
G#m
B
E
the gargle dims me brain
B
F#
E
'Cause Dublin keeps on changing
B
F#
and nothing seems the same.
B
E
B
The Pillar and the Met have gone,
G#m
B
E
the Royal long since pulled down
B
F#
E
B
As the grey unyielding concrete
F#
B
makes a city of my Town.
Verse 8
I remember Dublin city in the
rare oul times.
Verse 9
B
E
Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey,
B
G#m
B
E
I can no longer stay,
B
F#
E
And watch the new glass cages,
B
F#
D#m
F#
that spring up along the quay,
B
E
B
My mind's too full of memories,
G#m
B
E
to old to hear new chimes,
B
F#
E
I'm a part of what was Dublin,
B
F#
B
in the Rare Oul Times.
Verse 10
E
B
G#m
Ring a ring a rosie
B
E
as the lights declines,
B
F#
E
B
I remember Dublin city
F#
B
in the rare oul times.
Verse 11
E
B
G#m
Ring a ring a rosie
B
E
as the lights declines,
B
F#
E
I remember Dublin city
B
F#
in the rare oul times.
B
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ChordsB E G#m F# D#m
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