Molly Malone

I have put Molly's picture up again because I didn't do her justice in my last blog. Molly was unveiled in 1988 during the Millennium celebration in Dublin declaring June 13 Molly Malone Day. She died on June 13 1699.  The statue protrays her in her seventeenth-century dress.  Her low cut dress and the large breast were justified on the grounds that as women breastfed publicly in Molly's time.

  Molly was/ is known as a hawker by day and a part-time prostitute by night.  or..."The Tart With The Cart", "The Dish With The Fish", "The Trollop With TheScallop(s)", "The Dolly With the Trolley", and "The Flirt in the Skirt".

 The famous song that is known to many of us was published in 1883 in Cambridge Massachusetts and published also in London in 1884.

In a few weeks Molly is going to start her tour around the world.

Here is her song. There are some other versions and versus that I have heard too, but this is the most known.

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, alive, oh,

Alive, alive, oh,"

Crying "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh".

She was a fishmonger,

But sure 'twas no wonder,

For so were her father and mother before,

And they each wheeled their barrows,

Through streets broad and narrow,

Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh!"

(chorus)

She died of a fever,

And none could relieve her,

And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone.

But her ghost wheels her barrow,

Through streets broad and narrow,

Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh!"

(chorus)x2^[7

Cheerio :-)