Molly Malone

RETURN TO IRISH SONGS

SLOW WALTZ - - - [C Dm C G C] through the entire song

In [C] Dublin's fair city, where the [Dm] girls are so pretty,  I [C] first set my eyes on sweet Molly [G] Malone.  As she [C] wheeled her wheelbarrow, through [Dm] streets broad and narrow,  Crying, [C]  "Cockles and mussels, [G] alive, alive, [C] oh!"

{ CHORUS } - - - [C] Alive, alive, oh - - [Dm] Alive, alive, oh.  Crying, [C] "Cockles and mussels, [G] alive, alive, [C] oh

She [C] was a fishmonger, and [Dm] sure 'twas no wonder, for [C] so were her father and mother [G] before.  And they [C] both wheeled their barrows through [Dm] streets broad and narrow,  Crying, [C]  "Cockles and mussels, [G] alive, alive, [C]  oh

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She [C] died of a fever, and [Dm] no one could save her, and [C] that was the end of sweet Molly [G] Malone.  But her [C] ghost wheels her barrow through [Dm] streets broad and narrow - Crying, [C] "Cockles and mussels, [G] alive, alive, [C] oh

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