COCKLES AND MUSSELS
In Dublin's fair city,
Where the girls are so pretty,
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone,
As she wheeled her wheel-
Through the streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and Mussels, alive, alive, oh!"
"Alive, alive, oh,
Alive, alive, oh,"
Crying "Cockles and Mussels, alive, alive, oh".
She was a fishmonger
But sure 'twas no wonder
For so were her father and mother before
And they both wheeled their barrow
Through the streets broad and narrow
Crying "Cockles and Mussels alive, alive oh!"
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 the streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and Mussels, alive, alive, oh!"
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Singer -
Recording -
The original audio is number 35 from ‘Learn an Irish Song’.
Before addition of lyrics, audio processing was completed with Cubase (Steinberg):
- Synchronize 3 copies of the audio and adjust panning of tracks for optimal stereo.
- Track 1: add Studioeq and adjust the 4 EQ bands.
- Track 1: add ‘sweet vocal delay’ MonoDelay and adjust
Track 2: add ‘large living room’ Roomworks SE and adjust
- Track 3: add ‘large living room’ Roomworks SE and adjust -
with different settings to Track 2 for enhanced stereo
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Advanced tasks for Music Tech students:
Download a well known world folk song MIDI file such as Molly Malone.
Open the file in your music sequencer program, edit, consider recording singer(s), convert completed file to MP3. If you finish these tasks, consider sending your MP3 performance recordings together with a copy of lyrics to this website. For copyright reasons pop songs can only be considered if they are substantially different from published recordings.