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Handsome Molly (Bill Morrissey)

from Covering All the Angles Volume 2 by Guy Capecelatro III

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I first saw Bill Morrissey when I was in college, living above a bike shop that was next to a health food restaurant, Suzanne's Kitchen. I'd pop over to see the "old" folkies doing there thing and Bill Morrissey was one of the performers and I was really blown away by his writing.

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Handsome Molly

Park my cab on Water Street
I'm waiting for a fare
Watch the 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
Never in the choir
Sometimes howlin' and amazed
Like the wind hung up on barbed wire

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

Well, it's pretty doe-eyed Molly
Could see so well at night
It was a hard trade she made
Just to see it black white.

Now the word's gone down this north coast
And its Boy you best take care
Cut yourself with a knife
Find 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 'round the world.

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

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from Covering All the Angles Volume 2, released January 12, 2024
GC III - All the Things.

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