Susan Vaslev - Molly Malone

In Dublin's fair city where girls are so pretty

It was there that I first met sweet Molly Malone

She wheeled her wheelbarrow

Through the 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 and sure, t'was no wonder

For her father and mother

Were fishmongers too

And they both wheeled their barrow

Through the streets broad and narrow

Crying "cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh"

She died of a fever and no one could save her

Was then that I lost sweet Molly Malone

Now her ghost wheels her barrow

Through streets broad and narrow

Crying "cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh"

      "Molly Malone" (also known as "Cockles and Mussels" or "In Dublin's Fair City") is a popular song set in Dublin, Ireland, which has become its unofficial anthem.

      There is no evidence that the song is based on a real woman. The name "Molly" originated as a familiar version of the names Mary and Margaret. While many such "Molly" Malones were born in Dublin over the centuries, no evidence connects any of them to the events in the song. Nevertheless, the Dublin Millennium Commission in 1988 endorsed claims made for a Mary Malone who died on 13 June 1699, and proclaimed 13 June to be "Molly Malone Day".