The Dubliners - Dublin In The Rare Old Times-HQ

Dubliners - Dublin In The Rare Old Times Lyrics
Raised on songs & stories, heroes of re-known
The passing tales & glories that once was Dublin town
The hallowed halls & 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 remember Dublin city in the rare ould times
My name it is Sean Demspey, as Dublin as can be
Born hard & late in Pimlico, in a house that 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
& I courted Peggy Dignan, as pretty as you please
A rogue & 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
[Chorus]
The years have made me bitter, the gargle dims my brain
'Cause Dublin keeps on changing & nothing stays the same
The Pillar & the Met have gone, the Royal long since pulled down
As the great unyielding concrete makes a city of my town
[Chorus]
Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey, I can no longer stay
& watch the new glass cages, that spring up along the quay
My mind's too full of memories, too old to hear new chimes
I'm part of what was Dublin in the rare ould times

[@allthatjazz-7]

One of the best examples of Irish musicianship that I have ever heard! Such wonderful instrumentation. And the quintessential and irreplaceable, Ronnie Drew. This could not be called anything else but a truly classic performance. The bar can go no higher! This music deserves to be better known and loved and cherished , thankyou so much!

[@hermyoneelover]

No other sound interferences... just a mic, a few great men, Guitars, a violin, and a banjo... oh and the most intoxicating voice ever in music!!! I'm Filipino and relate to this song...

[@nikkeijin-man7025]

Same filipino here, appreciating this songs too.

[@jorgmichaelgiese5723]

Beautiful!! RIP Ronny Drew Greet from Germany!!

[@tassie57]

Recently visited Ireland and Dublin for the first time, from Australia, wonderful place and great people. Sung along with this song in a Dublin Pub.

[@Cat-rm4rx]

It's a horrible place to live in. I'm Irish and live in Ireland. Nosy people who would know more about you than you know about yourself, not everyone, but the majority!

[@grandslam1998]

I go to Dublin every other year to see Wales play. I always have a great welcome and fun time! A fine song!

[@davidlynch2685]

I have been away for almost 30 yrs. I am still a Dub. Still miss it. Grea place great people great nation.

[@porkynn126da]

I left in 1977 but Dublin is in my bones, I go back regularly. I love the pubs along the canal , I sometimes go to Howth for some Trad music and Corned Beef and Cabbage

[@pet456bike]

I have never been to Dublin, even tho I am Irish decent, N.Irish. But Ronnie paints a beautiful picture of days gone by.. must go before I die ..... RIP Ronnie.xxx

[@RockinRichy]

So beautiful and haunting. I have not one drop of Irish blood in me veins, but have visited and long loved the culture and music. God bless the Dubliners. Simply amazing.

[@lilien231]

Beautiful voice

[@brandib2714]

The man had an amazing voice, with the kindest eyes I have ever seen...I almost wish he was my grandfather.

[@1lenapalmer]

This SO reminds me of my dad who moved to Liverpool so as to feed his family as there was no work in Dublin at the time, and moved back in 1971 to look after his very ill dad with my mun an youngest brother Marty and noticed the awful change in his homeland. RIP Joe Rooney, I hope you are at peace with my mum and our brother Joey xxx

[@jaydenchrono]

I hope you're doing well Lena

[@brianmcanespy6722]

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[@Roxalklur]

Das Lied is so genial. Ich kann es garnicht weiter beschreiben

[@wilfriedschuler3796]

Es passt auf jede Stadt. Ein tolles Lied. Hören sie bitte die Version mit Luke Kelly oder den Dublin City Ramblers. Viele Grüße W.S.

[@michaelmooney7514]

This song reminds me of one of the best friends I ever had Willy Kennedy 🍀 true gentleman and a wee legend 💚💚💚

[@TheVote2010]

Dublin has changed so dramatically in the last 20 years. This song is as relevant today, as when it was first written. Some changes have been for the better, others have not.

[@martybogroll1979]

Leo varadkar and the e.u have helped destroy not only dublin but the whole of Ireland

[@caxperscott1132]

I went to dublin for my honeymoon in 1994. My late husband was an irishman. Went back in 2019 and nothing was the same. The song is specific to dublin but its just as accurate for many a town thats been sanitized of its character. I barely recognise my home of glasgow any more

[@markocarroll9424]

@@martybogroll1979 Leo tells everyone diversity is a strength Thomas Sowell tells everyone diversity is another word for balkanization Watch the ECB and their policies (inflation, NIRP etc) and the price of gold cos the cost of this vision will be huge

[@ximmise]

When I was about 5, all I heard was this and Snowy Breasted Pearl. My grandfather, a very quiet man, would end the night with these. I don't care if I'm older now, these memories cannot be replaced.

[@johnmchendry6782]

What can one say MAGNIFICENT!

[@alphazarpha]

me grandpapa was a cooper... made barrels till he died... even if no one bought them he still made them... hes now buried in one... deep down in the ocean... just 5 miles from were he was born...crazy old man!

[@ginasullivan5390]

Love the Dubliners ,both sad and happy songs.

[@cassie93100]

I love this song so much my grandad always used to sing it growing up always reminds me of him ❤

[@ricardoalbertomato2037]

Emocionante. dede Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[@nancyburke5779]

Another lovely song beautiful

[@sgtjeff56]

What I love about this song is an old timer like me can substitute ANY city or town he grew up in and the song would make perfect sense.

[@michaelgallant2623]

What can ya say...Beautiful In The Rare Old Times...TY Ronnie...I Love Ya.

[@WhenTheSkiesGoBlue]

3 generations of my family and at least a dozen relatives worked in the Bottle House, Ringsend Road and Pigeon House Road. My father and brother were made redundant. So many hearts and lives were shattered when it closed down.

[@davidcunningham9458]

Brilliant

[@GedKelly1999]

I absolutely love Luke Kelly - he has to be my favourite traditional singer - but for some reason I always preferred Ronnie Drew's version of this one. Nice upload.

[@dubcindub15]

@abbeyharry1952 A cooper is the trade of barrel making, heating the wood by steam and bending the steel around it to secure it. Would have been a good trade way back in the day for storing things, shipping, storing Guinness etc, plastics and metals came along and became cheaper, hence "lost out to redundancy"

[@abbeyharry1952]

@TheDublinersHQ and the Very Same To You and Yours Across The Pond My Friend---Am Slowly Getting Through My Mail LOL Keep Smiling. Love Mary.

[@TheDavid2222]

it's hard not to cry listening to that. So much for progress.

[@jamesbrennand3181]

This is far the best version of the song no one else comes even close to this he was a very rare talented man

[@irlandesa1000]

WONDERFULL!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@internetsurfer777]

im from sweden. i love this stuff. i dont have your history. i have this history: readin/seeing play by swedish playwriter about american/irish playwriter eugene o'neill.. who so often refer to the irish roots, i probably know more about them than many irish do. so i love ireland by watching a swedish play.

[@caramadra5]

Love this music. I grew up in Ireland with it. My Dad was a musician there.

[@ulster317]

beautiful tale

[@johnkennedy5799]

Absolutely my friend, we'll never see the like of him again...or Luke..or Barney...or Cairan...Gof bless them all.

[@fredmerkur2562]

Nicht nur der Ton macht die Musik, auch die Stimme !!. einfach genial, um mich mal dem Franken anzuschliessen :) Gebe 5 von möglichen 5 Punkten ;)

[@oliverbender3764]

Fred Merkur Schön übrigens, auch Deutsche zu sehen, die sich für diese Musik begeistern können. :-)

[@Oldboy-jq8xf]

Oliver Bender👍 Grüße aus Niedersachsen

[@noreenoneill6940]

❤️ the Dubliners and this song.

[@josepgimenocasanovas4474]

Desde Barcelona . Me encanta la música de Irlanda estuve en Dublín y me gustaría volver

[@emmettdoylemusic]

Though surely stronger for Dubliners, the sentiment of this song resonates with all those who see development change the face of their towns. On the other side of the Atlantic, I hear it and think of the new business lofts on main street, the Italian restaurant where the laundry used to be, the mill sitting empty, the old school replaced by the big new one, and our dirt roads in the hills paved over. They've put up a four-story apartment building and a chain grocery.

[@abbeyharry1952]

@parkerdonaldmusic Thankyou---You Are Very Kind. Keep Smiling. Mary.

[@OtherTwin]

so beautiful

[@gimpavarra]

Das Beste vom Besten - danke

[@s99bf0c8]

this song could just as well have been written today with all the changes and multiculturalism etc.

[@s99bf0c8]

rerevisionist I literally have no idea what you're on about?

[@rudyrodriguez8143]

s99bf0c8 Neither does he. He's kind of like the guy on the corner with the tin foil hat spouting off about lizard people while talking to invisible dragons.

[@grchu4694]

+Rudy Rodriguez 'written day' then he goes and mentions "you simpleton." *English says fuck this I am out*

[@Oldboy-jq8xf]

Changing never stops

[@konstantineguruli]

Thank you

[@DoloresFrank-vy6fz]

A true master!

[@angeldark5952]

To all you englishspeaking people: I really appreciate that many of you are posting their comments in german. Don`t know why, but thanks for that. My best wishes for Eire. May your island find enduring peace

[@villaaguiar]

SOU eternamente grato À minha filha que me deu de presente um DVD THE dubliners quando ela esteve em Dublin

[@LOCKJAW321]

Grand old song !!!

[@nuriaalvarez6244]

Hi Dublin..... miss you

[@jamesbm971]

Nuria Alvarez Hi from Ireland!! 😊

[@SalVastans]

Amazing

[@merjaa6041]

once, was old time where ever . but this is . . .

[@rosecorrigan9761]

I love this song xx

[@tomwaddell7968]

Masterfull. Can't remember them all but this is pretty good. So sad he is in heaven Or hell. God bless .

[@merjaa6041]

Kuin myös kiitos!

[@paul196824]

this is thee best ever sang ,and he looks like he came from the past in them days and it like today so many buildings being pulled down time keep changing and they call it progress so many lovely building gone to ruine its like apart of you that goes

[@abbeyharry1952]

@ATCPee Thankyou For Your Very Interesting Answer-----I Have Been To The Guinness Brewery---Very Interesting and Of Course Thirst Quenching LOL ! A Real Shame All The Coopers Lost Their Jobs---I Guess Thats What They Call 'Progress' ! Keep Smiling.

[@beybarys]

I have this one on CD. Must be a recording from the very same session. Sounds 1:1. But seeing Ronnie performing is sooo much more enchanting... RIP...

[@eezysqueezy]

These great men sing of a Dublin full of character and soul. A Dublin that is slowly disappearing.

The best version!

[@liamthedream]

Still remembered Ronnie and missed.

[@abbeyharry1952]

Brilliant Song ! What Is A 'Cooper' In My Favs. Thanks For Sharing. Keep Smiling.

[@elainemccarthy9843]

true irish saint with angel eyes

[@geraldinemoore4546]

Come now

[@kevcar08]

I couldn't of put it better, well said Moira.

[@marefynn81]

Whenever I hear this song, I think of how many changes I have seen in sixty years of living in New York City. Someday, I will write the Big Apple version. We need something a little newer than Eastside, Westside.

[@howardstadt]

@Slan67 my great grandfather was a cooper in Jersey City, NJ.

[@ATCPee]

@abbeyharry1952 A Cooper was a person who made wooden barrels. In this case, they would have worked in Guinness Brewery in Saint James Gate in Dublin. As the brewery changed to metal barrels the Coopers who hand made every barrel lost their jobs

[@chrick1916]

my grandfather was the same . at the end of a famliy do he would sing this .. a proper dub then cry about the north ..

[@CorwainTheMad]

If you did your research you'd know that the smith would make the metal rings for the barrels and the cooper would make the barrels with the rings [quote: Wikipedia] Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staved vessels, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples of a cooper's work include but are not limited to casks, barrels, buckets, tubs, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins and breakers. [/quote]

[@ca8538]

@TheDubliners , a cooper makes the barrels........... a great art.

[@arielmetamorphosis]

To the spine!

[@johnkennedy5799]

I'm saying this as a guy ok?....but Ronnie Drew had just about the most beautiful eyes i've ever seen!

[@anthrax500]

always makes me sad....

[@seachtaine]

my god what a voice

[@IrishPenguin1888]

Reminds me of my dad :)

[@Isyourmancarrying]

@TheDublinersHQ Copper is old money for pennies etc., 'By trade I was a cooper' means he made barrels (most likely) in Guinness' Greetings from Germany

[@VMA225]

The Late But Great Ronnie Drew RIP !!!

[@abbeyharry1952]

@RAGPUD Oh Dear Am Even More Confused Now LOL-----Dub Said It Was An Old Money Tin ! Ah Well I Guess He Was Pulling My Leg ! Thanks For Your Reply. Keep Smiling. Mary.

[@tomhesper1108]

Ronny, we Love you

[@user-mq3ey4he1e]

Country’s not the same not just Dublin 😢

[@JacquesClouseauJr]

Dub, great channel idea my friend! ;-)

[@xxmissluciaxx]

The legend

[@berndcordoba9584]

We mustn't give up!

[@lukeohare1]

this reminds me wen i was snairing pidgeons as a kid on south inner city around the gasometer ringsend pearse st deadly

[@abbeyharry1952]

@hatstalker Thankyou .

[@alphazarpha]

@TheDublinersHQ = Dubliners*the awesomeness of alpine slides+(sweet and sour twizlers-pain)

[@Wuppertal068]

❤

[@CaiRynn]

@TheDublinersHQ A cooper is the men who made the barrels for the Guinness and such

[@MOBSykoBob]

bless m8

[@mynameisnobodyz]

We all fall down

[@user-xy6ey7fc6f]

More real today than yesterday

[@daviddonohoe3263]

Not a patch on the original as sung by Lewis Doyle Singer. ❤

[@berndcordoba9584]

Same here in German cities... sad how many thing changed to bad :(

[@abbeyharry1952]

@TheDublinersHQ Yes---Will E-Mail You. Sorry Not Been Well. Keep Smiling.

[@LizaPeninon]

He had the bluest eyes ever ... :(

[@DamoMcDermott]

From the dubliners 'dublin'

[@abbeyharry1952]

@dubcindub15 Sorry For Late Response----Thanks For You Answer---Very Interesting.

[@chrick1916]

wata gr8 old man Mo Chara .. im sure u ment it the same ..

[@postalplasty]

Beautiful song..Enjoy it and don't read the comments. Idiotic trolls are aboard...

[@rapb329]

My Dublin.

[@shaw0170]

GOOD NIGHT MRS Mc EVOY ( MY MOTHER )

[@NotoTruth]

thats some pretty good fiddlin'