Song 32 in Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors · Song 32 in Ukulele for Beginners

Molly Malone

Also known as: Cockles and Mussels, Alive, Alive, Oh

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For Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors.

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For Ukulele for Beginners.

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In Dublin’s fair city, where the girls are so pretty,
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone,
As she wheeled her wheelbarrow through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, Cockles and mussels! alive, alive oh!
Alive, alive, oh! alive, alive, oh!
Crying, Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!
She was a fishmonger, but sure ’twas no wonder,
For so were her father and mother before;
And they each wheeled their barrow through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!
She died of a faver, and no one could save her,
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone;
Her ghost wheels her barrow through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!

Music: James Yorkston (1839–1906)
Words: James Yorkston (1839–1906)
First published: 1884 (Francis, Brothers & Day, London, credited to James Yorkston of Edinburgh); Scottish Students' Song Book (Köhler & Son, Edinburgh, 1891)
Copyright: Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.