Here are the lyrics for the Lonely Stranded Band's version of Come Up the Stairs:


COME UP THE STAIRS
(Shay Healy)


Young Molly was handsome and pretty
I'd rest and put on me new coat
And off to the men and to meet
And meself and a small rowing boat

I'd not gone more than a furlong
When holes in the bottom did sprout
And a big wave came out to capsize me
Meself and the small rowing boat

CHORUS:
Come up the stairs, up the stairs
Come up the stairs, Molly-o
And come up the stairs, up the stairs
Give me something to warm me, I'm cold

When up comes a great big sea monster
He was forty foot round, now, or more
Took one look at my sullen features
And he offered to take me on shore

Now where were you going in such weather?
I was going courtin' Molly, says I
Sure, there's no young ones left on this island
So how's a young man to get by

CHORUS

Now, why don't you and Molly get married
And then you can both stay at home
For tis better to suffer in marriage
Than spending your life on your own

Tonight I will ask her to marry me
I'm hoping she will agree
For tis better to suffer in marriage
Than in risking your neck on the sea

CHORUS

Radriano

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Note from Joe Offer (27 May 2013): I have received an e-mail from Shay Healy, confirming that he wrote this song. It was recorded by Paddy Reilly, The Emmet Spiceland and Johnny McEvoy - but the lyrics were written entirely by Shay Healy, Oisin/ Bardis Music 9 Prince of Wales Terrace, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4