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Handsome Molly (B. Morrissey)

from Ghosts out in the Rain by Hound of the Buskervilles

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Words and music by Bill Morrissey.
Performance by Hound of the Buskervilles
Recording licensed through easysonglicensing.com

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“Handsome Molly”
By Bill Morrissey


I park my cab on Water Street
I'm waiting for a fare
Watching young girls in their first heels
Step like colts across the square

Fire on the ocean, thunder on the sea
I think of Handsome Molly
wherever she may be

Now I'm either in this cab or bar
And never in the choir
Sometimes howling and amazed
Like the wind hung on barbed wire

Fire on the ocean, thunder on the sea
I think of Handsome Molly
and all she promised me

Well it’s pretty, doe-eyed Molly
Who could see so well at night
It was a hard trade she madeJust to see in black and white
Well the word's gone down this north coast
And it's boy you best take care
Cut yourself with a knife
Taste all the salt that's in the air

Fire on the ocean, thunder on the sea
I think of Handsome Molly
who cried so easily

Now the soldiers down on Water Street
They eye the little girls
And the little girls of Water Street
Will take them for a whirl

Fire on the ocean, thunder on the sea
I think of Handsome Molly
wherever she may be

credits

from Ghosts out in the Rain, released July 3, 2020
Dan Boone, mandolin; Eddie Hysinger, harmonica; Phil Ragland, lead guitar; Marty Rosen, vocals/guitar.

Produced, recorded, and mixed by Dan Boone.
Recording licensed through easysonglicensing.com

Cover art: Tom Russell
Band photo: Lou TIngle

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Hound of the Buskervilles Louisville, Kentucky

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Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Hound of the Buskervilles searches out interesting, well-wrought songs by writers across the English-speaking world, and interprets them in a distinctively collaborative musical style that highlights the virtuosity of listening.
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