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The girl was a seafood salesperson using a wheelbarrel to get her cockles and mussles around. One could imagine how she smelled after a day of handling those fishy smelling things.

Cockles and Mussels

G                                               D7
In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty,
   G                                         A7         D7
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone,
       G                                                      D7
She drove her wheel-barrow, through streets broad and narrow,

               G                                   D7           G
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive alive oh!"
     G                        D7
"Alive-a-live-oh, Alive-a-live-oh",
              G                                   D7           G
Crying "Cockles and mussels, alive alive oh"

She was a fishmonger, and sure 'twas no wonder,

For so were her mother and father before,

And they each wheeled their barrow,

Through streets broad and narrow,

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,

CHORUS

(I like to do a solo on verse and chorus chords

then sing first verse +chorus again)