Dickens' Dublin (The Palace)

I walk the streets of Dublin town

It's 1842

It's snowing on this Christmas Eve

Think I'll beg another bob or two

I'll huddle in this doorway here

Till someone comes along

If the lamp lighter comes real soon

Maybe I'll go home with him.

Maybe I can find a place I can call my home

Maybe I can find a home I can call my own.

The horses on the cobbled stones pass by

Think I'll get one one fine day

And ride into the countryside

And very far away.

But now as the daylight disappears

I best find a place to sleep

Think I'll slip into the bell tower

In the curch just down the street.

Maybe I can find a place I can call my home

Maybe I can find a home I can call my own.

Maybe on the way I'll find the dog

I saw the other night

And tuck him underneath my jacket

So we'll stay warm through the night

And as we lie in the bell tower high

And dream of days to come

The bells o'er head will call the hour

The day we will find a home.

Maybe I can find a place I can call my home

Maybe I can find a home I can call my own.

Dickens Dublin Transcript

Joyful mystery, the birth of our lord... This night our Lady and St. Joseph

was going up to get registered and um they were going down the road and

they met his man... and he said have you any room and he said 'Not but

there's an old stable over there that I owned... If yous want to get into

it...And they went over and the Lord came down from heaven at twelve

o'clock and loads of beautiful angels was with them... and when they were

walkin....

These three wise kings... um... they were all from different countries. And

they always looked up at the sky and they looked up this night and saw this

beautiful star up in the sky... and when they were going they all meeted

together... and they had to pass King Herod's, not that we much care for

him... and they went in and he said 'Where are ye going with your best

stitches on ye.'

And they said 'Did you not hear the news' and say he says 'What News' he

says 'This day the Savious is born' and he said to them 'When you find him

come back and tell me cause I want to go and adore him too' and he was only

coddin' them. He wanted to kill him and when they were going, they stopped

and they said 'Surely not this old stable that our King is born in. We were

expecting a palace.'

There was these shepards and shepards are fellas that mind the foals and

cows and sheeps and little lambs and all um they hears this beautiful music

up in the sky and they were wondering what was so fun... an angel

disappated them and he said 'I was wonderin' what was so fun' and he said

ye, and he said 'The Saviour is born. If you want to go see him follow that

star up in the sky,' and it was a beautiful star.