Susan McCann Dublin In My Tears Lyrics

I have travelled many miles, and I still don't understand
How sad you have become on my return.
Your old heart is filled with care. Sad and old they left you there.
Your once bright eyes with sorrow softly burn.
I can even sense the change in the sound of children's games.
How the dream's of youth's ambition have all turned to death and fear!
It's an age-old world, I'm told, but I've never felt so old
As I recall old Dublin in my tears.

Oh, the faces that I meet as I roam each one-way street
Reflect the empty statements of the times.
And the old cathedral bell can't be heard above the swell,
For they used to raise a message in her chimes.
All my childhood friends have gone like the streets where we were born
And the time that it has taken doesn't seem so many years.
They've faded in the gloom and now buried in the tomb,
Just a ghost of dear old Dublin in my tears.

There were times when jobs were few and the hungry days we knew.
Some days so bad, the memories I've cursed.
And the prayers I've said to God when on board the princess was
That our children will restore the pride we lost.
But the past they all forsake as they're dancing out your wake
While the heart of Dublin's dying, but nobody really cares.
The fools as they pass by laugh to see an old man cry.
I can't forget old Dublin in my tears. I can't forget old Dublin in my tears