Molly Malone Lyrics

First publication dates of Molly Malone lyrics are from 1883-4 and are credited to James Yorkston. No known publications exist prior to this, though natives of Dublin claim she was baptised in St John's church on July 27, 1663 and buried on June 13, 1699. Skeptisism exits that she was a real person. But it makes for a lovely story, imagining this poor waif walking the streets of Dublin!

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

Chorus:Alive alive oh
alive alive oh
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


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