Chords for Luke Kelly: Rare Auld Times ( Rare)

_ _ _ Thank you very much.
This one is a lovely song written by a friend of ours in Dublin called Pete St.
John.
It's called Dublin in the Rare Old [Ab] Time. _
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_ _ _ Ring-a-ring [Fm]-a _ [C]-rosie, _ as the [Am] light _ declines,
[C] I'll remember _ Dublin [F] city _ [G] in the rare _ _ [C] old _ time. _ _
_ _ Raised on songs [F] and _ [C] stories, _ heroes _ [Am] of renown,
_ [C] Of passing tales and glories, [G] that once was Dublin _ town.
_ [C] The hallowed halls [F] and houses, _ the haunting [Am] children's _ rhymes,
[C] That once was part [F] of Dublin _ in [G] the _ rare [C] old time. _ _
_ Ring-a-ring [Fm]-a _ _ [C]-rosie, _ as the light [Am] _ declines,
[C] I'll remember Dublin [F] city _ _ in the _ rare [C] old time. _ _ _ _ _
May name it is [Fm] _ _ _ [C] Shondamsea, as Dublin as [Am] can be,
_ [C] Born hard and rare in [F] _ [C] Pimlico, [G] in a house that ceased to _ be.
[C] By trade I was [F] a [C] cooper, _ lost out to _
[Am] redundancy,
_ Like [C] my house it [Am] felt [F] a [C] progress, and [G] it's now a [C] memory.
_ Let's hear you sing.
Ring-a-ring [Fm]
-a _ [C]-rosie, _ as the light [Am] declines, _
_ [C] I'll remember Dublin [F] city _ _ [G] in the _ rare old time.
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_ I courted Peggy [F] _ _ [C] Dignam, _ as petty as [Am] you _ please,
[C] A rogue and child [F] of [C] Mary, from [G] the rebel _ _ liberties.
_ _ [C] I lost her to [F] a student [C]
chap, with skin as black [Am] as coal,
[C] When he took her off [F] to Birmingham, _ [G] she took away [C] my _ soul.
_ _ Ring-a-ring-a _ -rosie, _ _ as the light _ [Am]
declines,
I'll remember Dublin _ [F] city _ in the [G] _ rare old [C] time. _ _ _ _
_ The years have made me [F] _ bitter, [C] _
the gargles [B] dimmed me [Am]
brain,
_ _ [C] Dublin _ keeps [F] on _ [C] changing, but [G] nothing _ seems the same.
_ The Pillar and [F] the Met have [C]
gone, the Royal long since [Am] fell down,
_ [C] As the grey, _ _ [F] unyielding [C] concrete makes [G] the city of [C] my _ _ town.
_ Ring-a-ring [F]
-a _ [C]-rosie, _ as the light [Am] _ declines,
[C] I'll remember Dublin [F] _ city _ [G] in the _ rare [C] old time.
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Fare thee well, sweet [F] Anna _ _ [C] Liffey, I can no longer [Am] stay,
_ _ [C] And watch the new glass [F] _ [C] cages _
[G] spring up along the quay.
_ [C] My mind's too full of [F] _ memories, _ too old to hear [Am] new chimes,
_ [C] I'm a part of [Em] what [F] was Dublin _ in [G] the _ rare [C] old _ _ _ times.
Ring-a-ring [Fm]-a _ [C] _ -rosie, _ as the light [Am] _ declines,
[C] I'll remember _ Dublin [F] city _ in [G] the rare _ [C] old time.
_ _ _ _ Ring-a [F]-ring-a _ _ [C] _
-rosie, as the light [Am] _
declines,
I'll [C] remember Dublin _ [F] city _ in [G] the _ rare _ old [G] _ [C] time.
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