Molly Na gCuach Ní Chuilleanáin
Curly Molly CullinaneThis is a traditional Irish love song arranged by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Ciaran Curran, Mark Kelly, Ciaran Tourish, Dermot Byrne and Dónal Lunny. It appears on Altan‘s fifth studio album Blackwater, released in 1996. See another version by Danú.
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Drunkeness for life I forego
Strong ale I will taste never more
Since I lost my pretty young maid
Who would plenish my pockets with riches
Chorus 1:
I long for her from me, from me
I long for her from me since leaving me
I long for her above and below me
The curly-haired Molly Nee Chull-in-an
I'll build a house on the hill
And four speckled cows I'll own
I'll allow no other person near them
But the lovely fair Molly Nee Chull-in-an
(Chorus 1)
Chorus 2:
I long for her from me, I long for her from me
I long for her from me since leaving me
I long for her above and below me
The curly-haired Molly Nee Chull-in-an
If I were in the last throes of death
And people could see no recovery
I'd never dictate my last will
'Til the arrival of fair Molly Nee Chull-in-an
(Chorus 2, chorus 1)
I happened one day in the woods
And I met a charming young maiden
She'd make a corpse come alive
And a lovely young man of an old fellow
(Chorus 1, chorus 2 2x)
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