The Dubliners - Second World Song lyrics

Was walking down at Dublin Street one morning Before the sun had roust the breeze to shake the flags I looked at all those people asleep in drafty doorways Keeping warm beneath old castoff rags Well now is the time to look around And face the problems in our town Now's the time to understand the need we've always known Now's the time to face it we fight for far off places Yet we failed to wage a war on wanted home I was strolling down one Dublin lane some evening Just as the dust was casting shadows on the sea And there I'd met an old man he cried as I was leaving Spare ten pence son for a cup off tea I was travelling down through Dublin late one friday I watched the moonshine ghostly pale to Cromling Hall's And children drinking cider along the public highway Where scrawling grimy words on grimy walls Well now is the time to look around And face the problems in our town Now's the time to understand the need we've always known Now's the time to face it we fight for far off places Yet we failed to wage a war on wanted home I was kneeling in a Dublin church one sunday And we heard the third worlds problems in their scores How can we help this people we never can till one day We put right this second world of ours Well now is the time to look around And face the problems in our town Now's the time to understand the need we've always known Now's the time to face it we fight for far off places Yet we failed to wage a war on wanted home