Farewell to Dublin (1983 version)

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The Wolfe Tones

The Wolfe Tones are an Irish rebel music band that incorporate Irish traditional music in their songs. Formed in 1963, they take their name from Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double meaning of a wolf tone – a spurious sound that can affect instruments of the violin family. more »

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To the city of our fathers
Where friend and foe have gathered
Where the Norman
Dane and Saxon had mingled with the Gael
Administered the Kingdom but soon
The Pale was reelin'
To cradle Irish freedom in
Dear old Dublin town

Fare thee well until we meet again
Down by the Liffey water
I'll bid farewell to Dublin and
Her streets of cobblestones
I'm goin' away to leave you
Me friends and all the girls too
Till I return to see you
Farewell old Dublin town

Now hеr poets, they werе many, her writers
They were plenty
There was Swift with all his little
Folk and Joyce and Molly Bloom
Her characters an unsung gang
There's forty coats and ol' bang bang
And Zozimus who always sang of
Dear old Dublin town

Fare thee well until we meet again
Down by the Liffey water
I'll bid farewell to Dublin and
Her streets of cobblestones
I'm goin' away to leave you
Me friends and all the girls too
Till I return to see you
Farewell old Dublin town

I remember in my childhood
Your mountains and your wild wood
I'd heard about your heroes in
The classroom as a boy
Of Thomas Street where Emmet died
In Sackville place they fought with pride
Of the times when brave Wolfe Tone did ride
In dear old Dublin town

Fare thee well until we meet again
Down by the Liffey water
I'll bid farewell to Dublin and
Her streets of cobblestones
I'm goin' away to leave you
Me friends and all the girls too
Till I return to see you
Farewell old Dublin town

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