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Verse one

In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty,

I first set my eyes on sweet Molloy Malone.

She wheeled a wheelbarrow, through streets broad and narrow,

Crying cockles and mussels,

-live, -live oh.

Chorus

A-live, alive O,

A-live, alive O,

Crying cockles and mussels,

A-live, alive oh.

Verse two

She was a fishmonger, and sure twas no wonder,

For so were her Father and Mother before.

And they all wheeled their barrows, through streets broad and narrow,

Crying Cockles and Mussels, Alive, alive O.

Verse three

She died of a fever, and no one to grieve her,

And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone.

Now her ghost wheels her barrow, through streets broad and narrow,

Crying: Cockles and Mussels, alive, alive O.