The Rare Old Times Chords by Luke Kelly

[Start]

[Verse]
C               F     C Am     C      F       
■ Ring a ring a rosie ■ as the lights declines
C                 F    C      G7       C    
I remember Dublin city in the rare oul times
                    F       C         Am    
Raised on songs and stories heroes of renown
C                     Gsus4   C    G7                  
The passing tales and glories that once was Dublin town


[Chorus]
C                      F      C                         Am    
The hallowed halls and houses ■ the haunting children's rhymes
C                    Gsus4 C      G7       C    
That once was Dublin city  in the Rare Oul Times


[Verse]
              F     C Am7    C      F       
Ring a ring a rosie ■ as the lights declines
C                 F    C        G7       C    
I remember Dublin city ■ in the rare oul times
                   F       C                    Am
My name it is Sean Dempsey ■ as Dublin as could be
C                     F       C    G                    Em Dm
Born hard and late in Pimlico in a house that ceased to be ■ 


[Chorus]
C                                   Am        
My trade I was a cooper lost out to redundancy
        C                  F        C  G7        C     
Like my house that fell to progress my trade's a memory


[Verse]
                    F      C                  Am    
And I courted Peggy Dignan ■ as pretty as you please
  C                  F    C        G     F Em        G7
A rogue and child of Mary from the rebel ■ liberties ■ 
  C             F       C                          Am  
I lost her to a student chap with skin as black as coal
        C               F          C   G7        C      
When he took her off to Birmingham she took away my soul


[Chorus]
       F      C     Am7    C          F       
Ring a ring a rosie ■   as the lights declines
C          F              G7       C        
I remember Dublin city in the rare oul times


[Inst]
F C G7 C
■ ■ ■  ■


[Verse]
               F       C                 Am           
The years have made me bitter the gargle dims me brain
C                   F           C   G7                Em  
'cause Dublin keeps on changing and nothing seems the same
G7  C      F                     C                    Am         
The Pillar and the Met have gone the Royal long since pulled down
C           F                   C       G    G7 C      
As the grey unyielding concrete makes a city of my Town


[Chorus]
       F      C     Am7    F              
Ring a ring a rosie as the lights declines
C          F           C      G7   C        
I remember Dublin city in the rare oul times


[Verse]
                     F    C               Am         
Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey I can no longer stay
C                 F           C    G                       
And watch the new glass cages that spring up along the quay


[Chorus]
C             F                C         Am             
My mind's too full of memories to old to hear new chimes
C             F               C      G    G7 C        
I'm a part of what was Dublin in the Rare ■  Oul Times
       F      C            F              
Ring a ring a rosie as the lights declines
  C        F           C      G7   C        
I remember Dublin city in the rare oul times
              F     C        F      C       
Ring a ring a rosie ■ as the lights declines
           F      N.C.                      
I remember Dublin city in the rare oul times


[End]