Chords for Rare Old Times by Pete St. John

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_ _ _ Hello this week. _ _
Here we go again.
Nothing to make a living. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Yeah, this week I'm going
[N] to sing a song that was certainly my favourite song of the 70s, favourite ballad anyway of
the _ 70s.
I loved this song.
_ _ It was sung by many different singers.
Danny Doyle did it
and _ Lou Kelly did it I think.
_ _ Yeah, written by Pete St John, one of the best songwriters
of the 70s I have to say. _
Great Dublin songwriter.
But the version that I liked best of all was
the version recorded and sung by Patsy Watchhorn of [G] the Dublin City Banders.
_ _ I think he was
very underrated because he was the best in the business. _ _
_ Best _ _ _ _ ballad singer anyway I
think. _ _ _ _
_ I [F#] like it very much.
It's called Dublin in the Railroad Times and I like it very much
myself because although I'm not a Dubliner and I was born in Banner in County Oxford,
I grew up in Dublin.
I spent most of my life in Dublin.
I came when I was six and I went
to school here and made my confirmation, my communion and got my primary exam and _ [F] _ _ _ [E] _
got
married out of [F] Closky and settled down there for a [G] while up in Dundrum.
_ Anyway, _ it's a
[N] city I love dearly and despite all its problems. _ _ _
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_ _ Join in if you know it. _ _ _
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It's the heart [C] of Dublin _ [D] in the rail.
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_ _ _ _ _ My name it [C] is Sean [G] _ Dempsey. _
As Dublin as can [Em] be. _
Born hard and late [C] in [G] Pimlico.
_ [D] The house
that ceased to be.
_ _ [G] By trade I [C] was a _ couver.
_ Lost out to _ [Em] redundancy.
_ Like my house that
fell to [C] _ [G] progress. _
[D] By trade [G] to memory. _ _
_ Ring a ring [C] _ _
[G] Rosie.
_ _ As the lights [Em]
decline.
I remember
Dublin _
[C] city [G] in [D] the rail.
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And I caught in Peggy [C] _
_ [G] Dydon.
As pretty as [B] you please.
[G] A rogue
and a child [C] of [D] Mary.
_ _ From the rebel liberties.
_ _ _ _ [G]
I lost her to [C] the student lab.
With skin as
black as [Em] coal. _ _
[G] And he took her off [C] to Birmingham.
[G] _ _ [D] _ He took away my [G] _
soul.
_ _ Ring a ring [C] _ _ [G] Rosie.
_ _ As
the lights [Em] decline.
_ [A] I remember Dublin [C] city _ in [D] the rail.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Now the years have [C] made me _ [G] bitter.
_ The drink has [Em] dimmed my brain.
_ [G] And Dublin keeps [C] on _ changing. _
[D] _ Nothing seems the same. _
[G] The Metropolitan _ _ [C] pillar [G] gone.
The rail long since [Em] pulled down.
[G] As the grey on yielding
[C] concrete [G] makes [D] the city of mine. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Ring a ring _ Rosie.
_ _ As the lights [Em] decline.
_ I remember Dublin
[C]
city [G] _ [D] in the rail. _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So farewell _ [C] Anna _
[G] Liffey.
_ I can no [B] longer stay.
_ And watch the new [C] glass [G] cages
rise [D] up along the quay.
_ _ My mind's too [C] full of [G] _ memories.
To vault to hear [C] new rhymes. _
[G] I'm a part
what was [C] Dublin in [D] the _ rail.
_ [G] _ _
_ _ _ Ring a ring [C] _
_ [G] Rosie.
_ As the [B] lights decline.
[Em] _ [G] I remember Dublin [C] city [G] in
the [D] rail.
_ _ _ _ _ And again.
_ _ _ _ Ring a ring _
[C] _ Rosie.
_ _ As the lights [B] decline.
[G] I remember Dublin city _ [D] in the
rail.
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_ _ I remember _ Dublin [C] city [G] in the rail. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ Up the Dubs.
[Am] Thank you very much [D] for this week.
See you
next week.
Thanks for joining me.
Slán.
God bless. _ _ _ _ _ _
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