The Dubliners, Imelda May & Karan Casey - The Rare Auld Times | Abbey Tavern 2012 | TG4

Geantraí Chrismas Special : The Dubliners and Imelda May - Dublin, In The Rare Old Times :
John Sheahan (Fiddle), Seán Cannon (Guitar & Vocals), Eamonn Campbell (Guitar), Gerry O'Connor (Banjo) and Patsy Watchorn (Banjo & Vocals), as well as special guests Imelda May and Karan Casey performing The Rare Auld Times [or Dublin, In The Rare Old Times], in The Abbey Tavern, Howth, Dublin. Lyrics below.

This clip comes from a Christmas episode of the TG4 series Geantraí which celebrated 50 years of The Dubliners along with the life and music of the legendary Barney McKenna, who passed away in 2012.

Seo hiad na Dubliners ag canadh an amhráin 'The Rare Auld Times' in éineacht le Karan Casey agus Imelda May ar an gclár Geantraí na Nollag sa bhliain 2012. Liricí thíos.

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The Rare Auld Times / Dublin In The Rare Ould Times

Raised on songs and stories, heroes of renown
The passing tales and glories that once was Dublin town
The hallowed halls and houses, the haunting childrens' rhymes
That once was Dublin city, in the rare ould times

Chorus:
Ring a ring a rosie, as the light declines
I'll remember Dublin city, in the rare auld times

My name it is Sean Dempsey, as Dublin as could be
Born hard and late in Pimlico, in a house that's ceased to be
By trade I was a cooper, lost out to redundancy
Like my house that fell to progress, my trade's a memory

And I courted Peggy Duignan, as pretty as you please
A rogue and a child of Mary, from the rebel Liberties
I lost her to a student chap, with a skin as black as coal
When he took her off to Birmingham, she took away my soul

The years have made me bitter, the gargle dims my brain
Cause Dublin keeps on changing, nothing seems the same
The Pillar and the Met have gone, the Royal long pulled down
As the grey unyielding concrete, makes a city of my town

So fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey, I can no longer stay
To watch the new glass cages spring up along the quay
My mind's too full of memories, too old to hear new chimes
I'm a part of what was Dublin, in the rare auld times

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