St Patrick’s day

 

 To all Irish people…enjoy St Patrick’s day today!

Read HERE about St Patrick’s day…

 When I was at Primary School, we used to sing folk songs from different countries. This song of Molly Malone, was one of them. We used to enjoy all these songs, but what came to my memory – immediately – was the chorus…the boys (as boys always are)…didn’t know the songs always quite well, but they sang and tried their best…but when it came to the chorus part of any song…it was always sung very loud…I think they wanted to show that at least they knew some of the song! hehehe….

The ballad Molly Malone, or Cockles and Mussels is popular both with the Irish people and tourists as an easy, memorable song that is associated strongly with Dublin city. However, despite the song’s great fame, little is known about its musical origins, or the veracity behind the story it tells. The composer of the lyrics and music is not known and it is uncertain when the song originated, or even what period it.
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The Song….

In Dublins fair city, where the girls are so pretty,
I once met a girl called sweet Molly Malone,
As she wheeled her wheelbarrow, through the streets broad and narrow,
Cryng cockles and mussels` Alive alive o

Chorus

Alive alive oh,
Alive alive oh
Crying cockles and mussels,
Alive alive oh.

Verse 2

She wheeled her wheelbarrow through the streets broad and narrow,
Just like her mother and father before
And they wheeled their wheel barrow,
through the streets broad and narrow,
crying cockles and mussels alive alive oh

My love had a fever and no one could save her,
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone,
But her ghost wheels her barrow
through the streets broad and narrow
crying cockles and mussels alive-alive oh.