where girls are so pretty
That's where he first met her,
She wheeled a wheelbarrow
through streets wide and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels,
For her father and mother
For they wheeled a barrow
through streets wide and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels
she said it would be grand
But to leave her dear Dublin,
And so they both wheel a barrow
through streets wide and narrow,
crying cockles and mussels,
Now, this is a story very old
of a girl who was his all along.
She was the one he would not forget,
And her name was Sweet Molly,
she said it would be grand
But to leave her dear Dublin,
So they both wheel a barrel
through streets wide and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels