I found a YouTube recording by Paddy Reilly that's very similar to the Bardic version posted by Dave above. This is what I hear:


COME UP THE STAIRS
(Shay Healy)

Young Molly was handsome and pretty,
I'd dressed and put on me new coat;
And off to the mainland to meet her,
Meself and the small rowing boat

I hadn't gone more than a furlong,
When holes in the bottom did sprout;
A big wave came up and capsized me,
Meself and the small rowin' boat.

CHORUS
I've come up the stairs, up the stairs,
Come up the stairs, Molly-o;
I've come up the stairs, up the stairs,
Bring somethin' to warm me old bones

When up comes a great big sea serpent,
He was forty feet long now or more;
He had one look at my solemm features,
And offered to take me ashore.

CHORUS

"Oh where were you goin' in such weather?"
"I was going courtin' Molly," says I.
"For there's no young ones left on the island,
So how's a young man to get by?"

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

CHORUS

Tonight I will ask her to marry,
I'm hopin' that she will agree;
For I'd rather be poor and be married,
Than riskin' me life on the sea.

FINAL CHORUS
I've come up the stairs, up the stairs,
Come up the stairs, Molly-o
I've come up the stairs, up the stairs,
It's yourself can be warmin' me bones.