Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussels) {additional verses in bold/italics by Sarah2}
(Traditional)

Sarah2's Comments:  I do additional verses now and again . . . For example, I like to get the sots singing along on "Molly Malone" about this time of year, but it's so short that it's over by the time they get really going on it. So I added a couple of verses . . .

In Dublin's fair city,
Where girls are so pretty,
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone,
As she pushed a wheelbarrow
Through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive-o!"

Refrain:
Alive, alive-o, alive, alive-o!
Cockles and mussels, alive, alive-o!

She were dainty and lissome,
With a smile shy and winsome,
And about her hung the fragrance of salmon and roe,
As she danced her wheelbarrow
'Round the streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussles, alive, alive-o!"

(Refrain)

She was a fishmonger,
And, sure, 'twas no wonder,
For so were her father and mother before.
The each wheeled a 'barrow
Through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive-o!"

(Refrain)

All the lads would come courtin'
But Molly swore sportin'
Were better than a husband, bringin' worries and woe.
She said, "I'd rather me 'barrow
Make a bed neat and narrow,
'Midst me cockles and mussles, alive, alive-o!"

(Refrain)

She died of a fever,*
And no one could save her,
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone.
Now her ghost wheels her 'barrow
Through the streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive-o!"

(Refrain)

*sung as "fay-ver"