Cockles and Mussels

In Dublin's fair city,

where the girls are so pretty

I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone

As she wheel'd her wheel barrow

Thro' streets broad and narrow


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Crying "Cockles and Mussels alive, alive O!"

Alive, alive O! Alive, alive O

Crying Cockles and Mussels Alive, alive O!


She was a fishmonger,

But sure 'twas no wonder,

For so were her father and mother before,

And they each wheel'd their barrow

Thro' streets broad and narrow,

(Chorus)


She died of a fever

And no one could save her,

And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone;

But her ghost wheels her barrow

Thro' streets broad and narrow

(Chorus)


Gammel irsk