oh dublin you re my city i m proud to call you mine divided by the liffey s greasy slime no matter who i love and woo at home or over sea my heart prefers those dubliners like me dublin men and women are the salt of all the earth fiercely true and loyal to the town that gave them birth a dublin man spends all his life making friends with black porter each evening at eight when they sound his death knell his last prayer is to dwell by saint james pearly gate oh dublin you re my city i m proud to call you mine divided by the liffey s greasy slime no matter who i love and woo at home or over sea my heart prefers those dubliners like me dublin is to dubliners a dear old dirty town it s getting dearer every year and hard to earn a pound and as for the liffey that gash through the city it s thicker than treacle or chalk it will soon be so grim that instead of a swim they ll be holding the liffey walk thugs and drugs and muggings are the order of the day the headlines yell we ve gone to hell it s time crime didn t pay the gangs and the police meet nightly on foley street bleeding their way through the news it s become quite a scene the new show on our screen will be sean mcdermott street blues oh dublin you re my city i m proud to call you mine divided by the liffey s greasy slime no matter who i love and woo at home or over sea my heart prefers those dubliners like me even though we ve troubles we can always find a smile a dub will wear a certain air i think you d call it style those guinness streaked faces from the phoenix park races cheer up the grey streets with their jibes though most landmarks are gone the rich pagent lives on and molly malone still survives so dublin you re my city i m proud to call you mine divided by the liffey s greasy slime no matter who i love and woo at home or over sea my heart prefers those dubliners like me dublin you re my city i m proud to call you mine divided by the liffey s greasy slime no matter who i love and woo at home or over sea my heart prefers those dubliners like me