The strongly nostalgic tone of the lyrics are made even more poignant because of the changes which have overtaken Dublin in such a remarkably short time over the last few decades, some good, some not so good. More Bertoldt Brecht than Molly Malone, the impassioned lyrics of The Rare Ould Times song evokes an old Dublin that has long disappeared. “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.” It makes the perfect threnody for a funeral. The extraordinary and lasting popularity of the song comes from the marriage of Colum’s verses to that melody. ![]() ![]() Writer Pádraic Colum reworked these verses, adding several almost ethereal lyrics of his own. The verses were then combined with a melody either collected, re-worked or written by musicologist Herbert Hughes.
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