The Rare Ould Times Lyrics

Lyric discussion by JakeLandis 

Cover art for The Rare Ould Times lyrics by Flogging Molly

It's not racist. Describing a person's skin color isn't racist unless there is a negative adjective in there too, and their isn'e, unless you consider "coal" degradatory...

The song is really beautiful, it's about losing your love interest and losing the love of your ever-changing city and remembering how much better everything was in the past.