Chords for The Dubliners- Dublin In The Rare Oul' Times

_ _ _ _ _ _ Ring-a-ring [C]-a _ [Am]-rosie, [C] as the [F] light _ declines, [C] I remember Dublin [F] City _ [G] in the rare [C] of _ times. _ _ _
_ _ Raised on songs [F] and _ [C]
stories, _ heroes [Am] of renown.
[C] The passing [F] tales and _ [C]
glories that [G] once was Dublin Town. _
[C] The hallowed halls [F] and [C] houses, _ the haunting [Am] children's rhymes,
[C] That once was Dublin [F] City [C]
in [G] the rare _ [C] of _ times.
Ring-a-ring [F]-a _ [C]
-rosie, [Am] as [C] the light [F] _ declines, [C] I'll remember Dublin [F] City _ [C]
in [G] the rare [C] of times.
_ _ _ My name it is _ Shundem C, _ as Dublin as [Am] could be.
Born hard and late [F] in [C] Pimlico, [G] in a house that ceased [Em] to be.
[G] _ [C] By trade I was a cooper, lost out to _
_ [Am] redundancy.
Like [C] my house that fell to [F] _ _ [C] progress, [G] my trades a [C] memory.
[F] _ _ _ _ _
And I courted Peggy _ [C]
Dignan, as pretty as [Am] you please.
A rogue and a child [F] of Mary, from [G] the rebel [F] _ [Em] liberties.
_ [G]
I [C] lost her to a [F] student [C] chap, with skin as black as [Am] coal.
When he [C] took her off [F] to Birmingham, [C]
she took away my soul. _
_ Ring-a-ring [F]-a _ [C]
-rosie, [Am] as [C] the light [F] _ declines, I'll remember _ Dublin [F] City _ in [G] the rare of [C] _ times.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ The years have [F] made me bitter, [C] _ the gargle [Am] dims me brain.
[C] As Dublin keeps [F] on changing, [G] and nothing _ [Em] seems the [G] same.
[C] The pillar [F] and the net have gone, the royal on since [Am] pulled down.
[C] As the grey _ [F] unyielding concrete [G] makes the city [C] of my town.
Ring _ -a [F]-ring-a _ [Am]-rosie, [C] as the [F] light _ declines, [C] I'll remember Dublin [F] City _ [G] in the rare [C] of times. _ _ _ _
Fare thee well, sweet _ _ _ Anneleafy, I can no [Am] longer stay.
[C] And watch the new [F] glass [C] cages [G] that spring up along [Em] the [G] quay.
[C] My mind's too full [F] of _ [C]
memories, too old to hear [Am] new chimes.
[C] I'm a part of what [F] was Dublin [C]
in [G] the rare [C] of _ times.
_ Ring-a-ring [F]-a _ [C]
-rosie, [Am] _ as the light [F] _ declines, [C] I'll remember Dublin [F] City [C]
in [G] the _ [C] rare of _ times.
Ring-a-ring [F]-a _ [C]
-rosie, [Am] _ as the light [F] _ declines, [C] I'll remember Dublin [F] City [C]