Dublin In My Tears          http://dublincityramblers.com/


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I have travelled many lands,and I still don't understand
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How sad you have become on my return
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Your poor heart is filled with care,sad and old they left you there
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Your once bright eyes with sorrow softly burn
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I can even sense the change in the sound of childrens games
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And the dreams of youth's ambitions have all turned to doubt and fear
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It's an  age of wealth Im told but I've never felt so old
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As I recall old Dublin in my tears


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All the  faces that I meet as I roam each one way street
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Reflect the empty statements of our time
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And the  old cathedral bell can't be heard above the swell
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For the  years arranged a message in her chimes
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All my childhood friends are gone,like the street where I was born
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And the  time that it has taken doesn't  seem so long ago
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They have faded in the gloom like 'Sap Kelly' from the Coombe
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Like the ghost of dear old Dublin in my  tears.


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There were times when jobs were few,there were hungry days we knew
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Some days so bad their memory I've cursed
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And the  prayer I said to God,there on board the Princess Maud
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That our children would restore the pride we lost
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But the  past we all forsake while we're dancing at her wake
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And the  heart of Dublin's dying,but no body seems to care,
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And the  fools as they pass by,laugh to see an old man cry
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But I can't forget old Dublin in my tears


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Gather round brave men and true,though our numbers may be few
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We'll drink one toast before I cross the foam
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For soon in London's dark domain,I'll recall how I became
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No more a stranger there that here at home
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But the  liffey flows along and I listen for her song
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And the  voice of young James Larkin seems to echo in my ears
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But its  just the rafters ring,to it's requiem I'll sing
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Farewell to dear old Dublin in my tears,
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Farewell to dear old Dublin in my tears ..