Alive, Alive, Oh!

Yes! It’s Herself; none other than the beautiful Molly Malone!

Molly was an alluring Irish fishmonger, selling her ‘catch of the day’ from a street cart in Dublin. One of the many songs about her speculated that she was not a fishmonger only, but a prostitute as well.

This statue of Molly was created by Jeanne Rynhart in 1988. Her revealing Victorian garb slyly hints at her second job. Sure, and in no time at all she was rechristened ‘The Tart with a Cart”.

Our buxom girl has become one of the most recognizable monuments, visited by throngs of tourists every day. Your ol’ friend was happy to visit her a few years ago. Are we a match made in heaven, or what?

There’s a lovely little song about Molly and, no one does that song better than the Dubliners. Let’s give it a listen, shall we?

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About Ol' Big Jim

Jim L Wright has been a storekeeper, an embalmer, a hospital orderly, and a pathology medical coder, and through it all, a teller of tall tales. Many of his stories, like his first book, New Yesterdays, are set in his hometown of Piedmont, Alabama. For seven years he lived in the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, Amman, Jordan where he spent his time trying to visit every one of the thousands of Ammani coffee shops and scribbling in his ever-present notebook. These days he and his husband, Zeek, live in a cozy little house in Leeds, Alabama. He’s still scribbling in his notebooks when he isn’t gardening or refinishing a lovely bit of furniture. His book, New Yesterdays, can be found at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble.
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3 Responses to Alive, Alive, Oh!

  1. Very nice, Jim

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  2. She sure is attractive, Jim.

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