COCKELS AND MUSSELS (In English)


In this article, I´m going to speak about the song "Cockles and Mussels" and the typical Irish whistle.
In this video I play the song with the Irish whistle: https://youtu.be/W0q5egS2eyA

                                          COCKELS AND MUSSELS
Also know as "Molly Malone" is a popular song of  Dublin, Irland, which has become the anthem of Dublin.
The song tells a fictional tale of a fishmonger who plied her trade on the streets of Dublin, but who died young, of a fever.

This is the lyrics of the song:

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-barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!
Alive, alive-O! alive, alive-O!
Crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!
She was a fish-monger, but sure 'twas no wonder
For so were her father and mother before
And they each wheeled their barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!
Alive, alive-O! alive, alive-O!
Crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!

She died of a fever, and no one could save her
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
But her ghost wheels her barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!
Alive, alive-O! alive, alive-O!

Crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!
                                                   THE IRISH WHISTLE

 The irish whistle is a six-holed wind instrument. It is a type of whistle similar to a recorder.
There are some types of irish whistle, in diferents tonalities (predominate the whistles which are tune in D and in C ) and in diferents materials like metal, bamboo, and in plastic.
The irish whistle is one of the most famous irish wind instruments and one of the most significant in the Celt music.
In Spain one of the most well-know musician who play the irish whistle is Carlos Núñez.

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