What is the song about ?
Molly Malone is an Irish girl.She was a fishmonger like her parents who were fishmongers before her. She sold cockels and mussels on the streets while singing : "cockels and mussels, alive, alive-oh !".She carried them into a wheel barrow. She died in Dublin of fever but her ghost is said to wander in the streets still today.There is actually a statue of her and her wheel barrow in the center of Dublin.
Origins of the song:
It all started in 1880 when the song became very popular. It is the national anthem of Dublin. Famous football players and rugbymen sing this song before starting a match .
In Dublin’s fair city,
where the girls are so pretty,
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone,
As she wheeled her wheel-barrow,
Through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, « Cockles and mussels, alive alive oh! »
Alive-a-live-oh, Alive-a-live-oh,
Crying « Cockles and mussels, alive alive oh »
She was a fishmonger,
And sure ’twas no wonder,
For so were her father and mother before,
And they both wheeled their barrow,
Through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, « Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh! »
Alive-a-live-oh, Alive-a-live-oh,
Crying « Cockles and mussels, alive alive oh »
She died of a fever,
And no one could save her,
And that was the end of my sweet Molly Malone.
Now her ghost wheels her barrow,
Through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, « Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh! »
Alive-a-live-oh, Alive-a-live-oh,
Crying « Cockles and mussels, alive alive oh! »
by Chaimae, Camille, Morgane, Margaux
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