The Dubliners - Molly Malone

Is breá liom an t-amhrán

Everytime I listen to this song it touches something deep within me. This feverish girls pushing a cart is form me a kind of allegory of human live in general. There is also something sad and nostalgic what I find each time when I read about Ireland history.
I think this kind of universality made this song world famous.

Pozdrowienia z Polski =)

written by a scotsman actually, whilst danny boy was written by an Englishman, go figure.

6 nations 2010 here we come from wales

Thats so sweet, god bless you.

Chun go mbeadh sé mo chairde

and so one could save her
and that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
now her ghost wheels her barrow through the streets broad and narrow
singing cockles and mussels alive alive oh

Alive alive oh
alive alive ohh
Singing cockles and mussels
alive alive ohhh

so were her mother and father before
and they wheeled their wheel barrow
through the streets broad and narrow
singing cockles and mussels alive alive oh
She died of a fever

and she wheeled her wheel barrow
through the streets broad and narrow
singing cockles and mussels alive alive oh
She was a fish monger
and sure was no wonder

Alive alive oh
alive alive ohh
Singing cockles and mussels
alive alive ohhh
In Dublin's fair city
where the girls are so pretty
I once met a girl named sweet Molly Malone