In Dublin's fair City

"Sweet Molly Malone"

In Dublin's fair City
Where girls are so pretty,
'Twas there I first met
Sweet Molly Malone.

She drove a wheelbarrow
Thru' streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels,
Alive, alive-o"

Alive, alive-o! Alive, alive-o!
Crying, "Cockles and mussles,
Alive, alive-o."

She was a fishmonger,
But sure t'was no wonder,
Her father and mother
Were fishmongers too,
They drove wheelbarrows
Thru' streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels,
Alive, alive-o!

Alive, alive-o! Alive, alive-o!
Crying, "Cockles and mussles,
Alive, alive-o."

She died of the "faver",
And nothing could save her
And that was the end
Of sweet Molly Malone,
Her ghost wheels her barrow,
Thru' streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels,
Alive, alive-o

Alive, alive-o! Alive, alive-o!
Crying, "Cockles and mussles,
Alive, alive-o."

Edward Alperson - Jerry Winn

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