Referring to what's been posted above, here's what I hear on the Johnny McEvoy recording

COME UP THE STAIRS
(Shay Healy)

Young Molly was handsome and pretty,
I washed and put on me new coat;
And off to the mainland to courting,
I went in me small rowing boat.

CHORUS:
Come up the stairs, up the stairs
Come up the stairs, Molly-o;
Come up the stairs, up the stairs,
Bring something to warm me old bones.

Well, I hadn't gone more than four furlongs,
No more than ten minutes afloat,
When a big wave came and capsized us,
Meself and me small rowing boat.

Well, up comes a great big sea serpent,
He was forty long feet, now, or more;
And he'd one look at my sunken (solemn?) features,
And offered to take me ashore.

CHORUS

Oh, where were you going in such weather?
I was going courtin' Molly, said I;
As there's no humans left on me island,
So how's a young man to get by?

CHORUS

Why don't you and Molly get married,
And then you can both stay at home;
For it's better to suffer in marriage
Than catching your death in the cold.

CHORUS

Well, tonight I will ask her to marry,
I'm hoping that she will agree;
For I'd rather be fool (?) and be married,
Than risking me life on the sea.

CHORUS

Can somebody check this, especially the places marked with question marks?

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I found a few YouTube recordings:

• The Skelligs
• leprechaun
• Paddy Reilly