This is sung by Frank Harte on his album "Daybreak and a Candle End", and the lyrics are in his book "Songs of Dublin"(1978 Gilbert Dalton, pub). He says "A song made famous by Jimmy O'Dea and written by Harry O'Donovan. The song was written for performing on the stage but it has so much that is Dublin in it that it has been accepted by the tradition." He has a couple differences from Mick's lyrics: "There were pirets and pirots" (Pierrettes and Pierottes, referring to the French puppets); "There were rumbas and tangos" (probably just a typo); The first chorus substitutes "lemonade" for "Jamesons"; after that they get into the hard stuff...

Frank has been a wonderful collector and source of songs for people all over! I'm still stealing songs off his recordings, including this one, (although he's perfectly generous about teaching them and giving them away). He performed at the Washington Irish Festival last year and got Karan Casey and Mairead Ni ??(from Altan; I can neither spell nor pronounce Gaelic) up on stage with him to perform songs in their repertoires that they learned from him. He finished his set by bringing his 6-8 year-old grand-daughter up on stage to sing "Molly Malone" with him. It was truly wonderful!