Mash Sound Theme - Molly Malone lyrics

"Molly Malone"
(by Barry Taylor)
(from episode "That's Show Biz"; sung by Sarah Miller and Marina Ryan from the U.S.O. and the whole camp in post-op)


In Dublin's fair city where the girls are so pretty,
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone,
She wheeled a wheel barrel through streets broad and narrow,
Crying "cockles and mussels, alive alive oh."

[Chorus]:

Alive alive oh, alive alive oh,
Crying "cockles and mussels, alive alive oh."
She was a fishmonger and that was no wonder,
For so were her father and mother before,
They each wheeled their barrels through streets broad and narrow,
Crying "cockles and mussels, alive alive oh."

[Chorus]

Original version:

In Dublin's fair city where girls are so pretty
'Twas there that I first met sweet Molly Malone
As she wheeled her wheelbarrow
Through street broad and narrow
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"

[Chorus]:

Alive, alive oh, alive, alive oh,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"
Now she was a fishmonger and sure 'twas no wonder
For so were her mother and father 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 no one could save 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 oh"

[Chorus]