Lyr Req: Cockeyed and Muscle-Bound Molly Malone

Subject: Cockeyed and Muscle bound
From: DonMeixner
Date: 15 Jan 01 - 11:51 PM

Anyone have the lyrics to Cockeyed and muscle bound Molly Mallone?

Don

Subject: Lyr Add: MOLLY MALONE (PARODY) (Allan Sherman)^^
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 16 Jan 01 - 01:10 AM

It's by Allan Sherman and was on his album "My Son the Celebrity" (1963)
It's one of several songs in a medley called "Shticks of One and a Half a Dozen of the Other"

She wheels her wheelbarrow
Through streets that are narrow,
Her barrow is narrow, her hips are too wide.
So wherever she wheels it,
The neighborhood feels it,
Her girdle keeps scraping the homes on each side.

In Dublin's fair city,
Where girls are so pretty,
My Molly stands out 'cause she weighs 18 stone.
(That's 256 pounds.)
I don't mind her fat--but,
It's not only that--but,
She's cockeyed and muscle-bound, Molly Malone.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cockeyed and Muscle bound
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 11 Aug 05 - 03:39 PM

minor correction (this thread's been linked to today)
18 stone would be 252 pounds!, unless US measures differ!

Nigel (pedant)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cockeyed and Muscle bound
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 11 Aug 05 - 08:27 PM

Yes, 18 stone would be 252 pounds, but on the original LP Sherman
definitely says 256, and we're after authenticity here, not mathematics.

It bothered me a little in 1963 or whenever, but I've gotten over it.