Mike Moxcey ©2005

Molly Malone

Here’s a classic progression using a couple relative minor chords.

The main progression is this: I VIm IIm V7, and then it changes for the final line of the verse and chorus.

If instead you do the regular four chord instead of the TwoMinor: I VIm IV V7 then you will probably be able to play most of the love songs from the early 1960s.

Here it is written out in a few common keys. The 4 chord is in parentheses. 

C Am Dm(F) G7 | C Am Dm(F) G7 | C Am Dm(F) G7 | C Am G7 C |

C Am Dm(F) G7 | C Am G7 C |


D Bm Em(G) A7 | D Bm Em(G) A7 | D Bm Em(G) A7 | D Bm A7 D |

D Bm Em(G) A7 | D Bm A7 D |


F Dm Gm(Bb) C7 | F Dm Gm C7 | F Dm Gm C7 | F Dm C7 F |

F Dm Gm(Bb) C7 | F Dm C7 F |


G Em Am(C) D7 | G Em Am(C) D7 | G Em Am(C) D7 | G Em D7 G |

G Em Am(C) D7 | G Em D7 G |


A F#m Bm(D) E7 | A F#m Bm E7 | A F#m Bm E7 | A F#m E7 A |

A F#m Bm(D) E7 | A F#m E7 A |

  1. In Dublin's fair city where girls are so pretty
    twas there that I first met sweet Molly Malone
    as she wheeled her wheelbarrow through streets broad and narrow
    crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh."

    Ch: Alive, alive oh, alive, alive oh,
        crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"

  2. Now she was a fishmonger and sure twas no wonder
    for so were her mother and father before.
    And they each wheeled their barrows through streets broad and narrow
    crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh."

  3. 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 streets broad and narrow
    crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh."
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