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- From: William.Hughes@f255.n387.z1.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
- Subject: Filking the Taglines
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 11:45:08
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- Date: 12-11-92 (08:44)
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- CJ>SF>Another is example is Cockels and Mussels. I have hundreds
- >SF>of albums of Irish, Scottish, and English folk music and I've never come
- >SF>across a recording of Cockels and Mussels.
- CJ>I could be confusing it with another song, but it seems to me I've seen
- >Cockels and Mussels on a kiddie tape, maybe one of the "We Sing" series.
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- Chorus:
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- Alive, alive-o
- Alive, alive-o
- singin' "Cockles, and mussels,
- alive, alive-o."
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- Verse: [don't quote me...]
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- In Dublin's fair city
- where the girls are so pretty
- I first met a maiden
- named Molly Malone.
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- She pushed her wheelbarrow
- Through streets broad and narrow
- Singin' "Cockles, and mussels,
- alive, alive-o."
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- That's all I remember of it.
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