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DayfortheDead

Fairytale

Dublin in the Rare Ould Times
by Pete St. John

Raised on songs and stories, heroes of renown
Of passing tales and glories, that once was Dublin town
The hallowed halls and houses, the haunting children’s rhymes
That once was part of Dublin, in the rare ould times.

Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines
I’ll remember Dublin City, in the rare ould times.

My name it is Seán Dempsey, as Dublin as can be
Born hard and 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 Dignam, as pretty as you please
A rogue and child of Mary, from the rebel Liberties
I lost her to a student chap, with skin as black as coal
When he took her off to Birmingham, she took away my soul.

Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines
I’ll remember Dublin City, in the rare ould times.

The years have made me bitter, the gargle’s dimmed me brain
‘Cause Dublin keeps on changing, and nothing seems the same
The Pillar and the Met have gone, the Royal long since pulled down
As the grey unyielding concrete, makes a city of my town.

Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey, I can no longer stay
And 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 a part of what was Dublin, in the rare ould times.

Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines
I’ll remember Dublin City, in the rare ould times.

Ring a ring a rosey, as the light declines
I’ll remember Dublin City, in the rare ould times.

Performed and recorded by Darren McCarra and David McGettigan (Na Saoirsí).
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Dublin in the Rare Ould Times

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Bruce Springsteen at the Apollo Theater, Mar.9, 2012

"Thunder Road" - Bruce Springsteen (Live at the Apollo Theater, Mar.9, 2012)

Heather Alexander - March of Cambreadth

Live performance at Eddie's Attic.  You can purchase full recording here:  http://brianvanderark.com/store/

Thunder Road (BVA Cover)

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides.
figures dance around and around
to drums that pulse out echoes of darkness;
moving to the pagan sound.

Somewhere in a hidden memory
images float before my eyes
of fragrant nights of straw and of bonfires,
dancing till the next sunrise.

Chorus:

i can see the lights in the distance
trembling in the dark cloak of night.
candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing
a waltz on all souls night.

Figures of cornstalks bend in the shadows
held up tall as the flames leap high.
the green knight holds the holly bush
to mark where the old year passes by.

Chorus

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides.
figures dance around and around
to drums that pulse out echoes of darkness;
moving to the pagan sound.

Standing on the bridge that crosses 
the river that goes out to the sea.
the wind is full of a thousand voices;
they pass by the bridge and me.

Chorus

Chorus again

Triddana - All Souls Night (Loreena Mckennitt cover)

Whiskey In The Jar 1

Anything But Mine (Kenny Chesney Cover)

Christmas In N Y ~Shilelagh Law~

Bruce Springsteen - Born to run (live mexico city 10 Dic 2012)

When New York Was Irish

Whiskey

Opening track from "Larry Kirwan's Celtic Invasion".

Larry Kirwan's Celtic Invasion

Barleyjuice - Weekend Irish (from Larry Kirwan's Celtic Invasion)

Galway

Beauty

WhiskeySea

Mermaid

Reworked/Rearranged cover version of Sting's "Fields of Gold". This cover was recorded in the year 2011. 

Siddharth Basrur - Vocals
Vishal J Singh - Guitars, Bass, Synth, Production.

Siddharth's vocals recorded by Ayan De

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