Dublin Town

Rollin' down to Dublin Town

Comin' from the Northside, headin' Southbound

The glare of the city, you can see it in the sky

See it in the faces when I'm passing them by

Dublin Town

Bright lights all around

All the different sounds

Concrete surrounds

You need a few pounds or there's nothing to do

No muns, no fun in the foggy dew

I be signing on, off Gardiner street

See all the people struggling just to make ends meet

The more unfortunate ones be begging at your feet

We'll have to send a warning to the socially elite

And I repeat, if you keep a people down

In any old town

Or country

They'll rise don't you see

It's the will to survive

That keeps them alive

And they're starting to see through all the lies

That they've contrived, so I say to you all

To educate yourself, become well read

And start to use the head

Contemplate your own situation

Find the true enemy and stop banging heads

With the victims of its greed

Am I getting too serious?

Well this was meant to be a love song

Well it is a love song because I love my people

Not so long ago, back in the good old days

I dreamed of Irish laws and Irish ways

And saw that the present days weren't so good

And the only thing I could think about them that was good

Was most of the people that surrounded me

But still I call them good old days because of the craic

That we had

We refused to stay sad

If you have your own around you and also possess your health

At the end of the day you'll discover that that is the most

Essential wealth

I throw my mind back

And recall the days I used to have the craic

Back in Dublin town

Getting down to the Irish and Jamaican sounds

listenin' and learning about life

Helping me make it through the strife

Suckin on a big fat spliff full of rocky

Flagon in my hand

Be makin me feel grand

Discussing this and that

And thinking about the now

Thinking about the future, making myself a vow

I wasn't going to waste my life

But I was going to live and love

Do the best that I could

I was going to bring some music to the people

and tell them that they were equal

But some of them wouldn't listen

And this is what is pissin'

The rest of us off

You would wanna start listening to us, you would

Coz to you we aren't going to be good forever

Yeh maybe even here, in the Dublin Town

Things could get turned upside down.