The Quiet World

Feb 23, 2005 14:27

by Jeffrey McDaniel; stolen from jessie's lj ( Read more... )

poetry

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clevermynnie February 23 2005, 22:34:48 UTC
you're so posty today! it warms the cockles of my heart. just like freshman year.

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molly malone chih February 23 2005, 22:41:10 UTC
hehe... cockles reminds me of an irish song i learned to sing when i went to the british isles (i can sing it for you when you get home??? tho i sorta forgot the chorus part):

In Dublins fair city, where the girls are so pretty,
I once met a girl called sweet Molly Malone,
As she wheeled her wheelbarrow, through the streets broad and narrow,
Cryng cockles and mussels` Alive alive o

Chorus
Alive alive oh,
Alive alive oh
Crying cockles and mussels,
Alive alive oh.

Verse 2
She wheeled her wheelbarrow through the streets broad and narrow,
Just like her mother and father before
And they wheeled their wheel barrow,
through the streets broad and narrow,
crying cockles and mussels alive alive oh

My love had a fever and no one could save her,
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone,
But her ghost wheels her barrow
through the streets broad and narrow
crying cockles and mussels alive-alive oh.

(and somehwere in dublin, they have a bronze statue dedicated to the girl.)

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Re: molly malone s3nsational February 24 2005, 00:16:44 UTC
My Dad used to sing that song when I was a kid. Ah, the Irish are so good at making sad songs say so much. Um.

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thumbalina February 23 2005, 23:22:34 UTC
i fucking love that poem.

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