Barbara Boock wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
> again, I'm asking for help with a song in English language. I found the
> text in: 100 Irish Ballads. The text begins: In Dublin's fair city where
> the girls are so pretty... It has only three stanzas and is called "Cockles
> and mussels" too.
> The author of the song is not known. I would like to know how old it is and
> if there is any additional information about poor Molly Malone whose ghost
> is doomed to cry out cockles and mussels as she did all her lifetime long.
> Yours Barbara Boock, Deutsches Volksliedarchiv, Silberbachstr. 13, D-79100
> Freiburg
[I don't know how old either the song or statue is. I trust I will be
forgiven for passing on this post to the SCOTS-L list of last June 25.]
Almost completely irrelevant to this... there's a tradition in
Dublin that the "Molly Malone" of the song was a prostitute, and
the bronze statue of her is generally known as "The Tart with the
Cart" (to match "The Floozie in the Jacuzzi", the
statue-cum-fountain of Anna Livia in O'Connell Street).
[From: Jack Campin
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Bruce Olson
My website: www.erols.com/olsonw <A
href="http://www.erols.com/olsonw"> Click </a>
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