You find angels now / Throughout the city 
One or two on every street 
But as years pass by / There will be fewer still 
Of the ones you used to meet 
Whose loving hearts / Were full of kindness 
Whose busy days / Were full of prayers 
For dear ones lost / Or gone so far away 
For a town no longer theirs 

Maybe life for her / Was never easy
Maybe times were hard and sad
But her Dublin heart / keeps only memories
Of the good times, not the bad
The laughter, the love and music
The characters and faithful friends 
The birthday cards / And all the cheerful words 
That a loving family sends 

(Chorus after vv 2,4,6)
Look kindly on her as you pass 
Though you don't know her name 
Without our Dublin angels 
Our town won't be the same 
Soon enough the time will come 
And the last one will depart 
And another beat is forever lost 
From old Dublin's fading heart 

In her tiny flat / She's all alone now 
Where so few still think to call 
Her companions are in the pictures
That cover every wall
Some bright and new, some old and faded 
Of happy kids, newborn or grown
Of brave young men who fell in battle
Dear Lord, how years have flown! 

In shadows there / And in the silence 
Far from crowds and lights and noise 
She prays awhile / Before the fire 
For her own dear girls and boys 
With trembling hand  / she says her rosary 
Before it's done / she falls asleep 
And the fire dies  / as she sits dreaming 
In a peace profound and deep 

Who can say what good / comes from her praying?
What misfortunes kept at bay?
Who can say what child / has made it safely home
Who had gone so far astray?
What husband / brother or father
Is now restored / in grace and love
Through ceaseless prayers / said by an angel
That were answered from above?

But the world outside / Will soon forget her
As it rushes God knows where 
Its blinded eyes / Won't see an angel
Its deafened ears / Won't hear her prayer
But without her here / That world is empty
No more than cold / and selfish space
- No Dublin angels left to warm it
With their kindness and their grace!