Molly Malone

Subject: Molly Malone
From: Dorrie
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 06:46 PM

i didn't put this as a lyric request even though i probably should have-

in the song does it go 'cockles and muscles' OR 'Cockles fresh muscles'

i have been having this debate with my friend for a while now and i've only just realised how to put this right by asking the mudcat!!!!!!!!!!

Dorrie x

Subject: RE: Molly Malone
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 07:04 PM

I learned it "cockles and mussels" (shell fish, not muscles)

Subject: RE: Molly Malone
From: Dorrie
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 07:13 PM

oh yeah sorry i'm the crappest speller in the universe and was was quite a think mistake to make

Subject: RE: Molly Malone
From: allie kiwi
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 07:24 PM

I just went and had a look at the DigiTrad under Molly Malone, and there are two veriosn, NEITHER of which I learned to sing at school. (and no wonder - the nuns would never have allowed us to sing about 'titties' Irish or not *grin* )

Is this the NC17 version?

In Dublin's fair city, where the girls have no titties T'was there that I first met sweet Molly Malone You could have her for a penny, and be one of many, But for sixpence she would act alive, alive-o!

Alive, alive-o! Alive alive-o! But for sixpence she would act alive, alive-o!

She was a street walker, and sure t'was no wonder For so were her mother and grandmother too, With a mattress on the barrow, thru streets broad and narrow, And for sixpence they would act alive, alive-o!

Alive, alive-o! Alive alive-o! And for sixpence they would act alive, alive-o!

She died of a fever, and no one could save her; It was caught from a folkie from Ontario, Now her ghost wheels the barrow thru streets broad and narrow But a ghost can't be had that's alive, alive-o!

Alive, alive-o! Alive alive-o! But a ghost can't be had that's alive, alive-o!

Allie

Subject: RE: Molly Malone
From: allie kiwi
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 07:26 PM

Ooops, forgot to ask, where on EARTH did this version come from, and which is the original - anyone know?

Allie who is now as interested as Dorrie who put n the request

Subject: RE: Molly Malone
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 07:35 PM

The song goes back a long time before Ontario folkies came into the picture. Here is an interesting previous thread on the Mudcat which delves into these matters. Not without some controversy.

Subject: RE: Molly Malone
From: GUEST,who wrote molly malone
Date: 09 Sep 09 - 10:29 AM

Subject: RE: Molly Malone
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Sep 09 - 10:42 AM

There is a statue of Molly Malone in Dublin, known by the locals as ' the tart with the cart '

Dave H