Dublin In My Tears

	  		
Intro 
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Verse 1:
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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 old heart is filled with care, sad and old they left you there, 
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your once wiped eyes with sorrow, softly burn. 


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I can even sense the change in the sound of children’s games 
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and the dreams of youths' ambitions have all turned to death and fear. 
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It’s an age of wealth I’m told, but I’ve never felt so old, 
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as I recall old Dublin in my tears. 


Verse 2:
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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 the times. 
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And the old cathedral bell can’t be heard above the swell 
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for the years erase the message in her chimes. 


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All my childhood friends are gone, like the street where we were born, 
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and the time that it has taken doesn’t seem so many years. 
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They have faded in the gloom with ‘Sap' Kelly of the Crew, 
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just a 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 onboard the 'Princess Maud' 
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that our children would restore a pride we lost. 


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But their past they all forsake, as they're dancing at her wake, 
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while the heart of Dublin’s dying, nobody really cares. 
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And the fools, as they pass by, laugh to see an old man cry, 
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oh, I can’t forget old Dublin in my tears. 



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Gather round brave men and true, though our numbers they 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 than here at home. 


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Now the Liffey flows along and I listen to her song 
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'till the voice of young James Larkin seems to echo in my ears. 
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But it's just the rafters ring, to it’s requiem I 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.