Molly Malone
Author unknown

Alive, alive, oh
alive, alive, ohh
singing cockles and mussels
alive, alive, ohhh

In Dublin's fair city
where the girls are so pretty
I once met a girl named sweet Molly Malone
and she wheeled her wheel barrow
through the streets broad and narrow
singing cockles and mussels alive, alive, oh

She was a fish monger
and sure was no wonder
so were her mother and father before
and they wheeled their wheel barrow
through the streets broad and narrow
singing cockles and mussels alive, alive oh

She died of a fever
and so one could save her
and that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
now her ghost wheels her barrow through the streets broad and narrow
singing cockles and mussels alive, alive, oh

She wheels her wheel barrow
thought the streets broad and narrow
her barrow is narrow
her hips are too wide
and whenever she wheels it
the neighborhood feels it
her girdle keeps brushin' the homes on each side

It's not just her fat but,
it's not only that but,
she's cockeyed and muscle-bound Molly Malone

Alive, alive, oh
alive, alive, ohh
singing cockles and mussels
alive, alive, ohhh

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