Lyrics to Handsome Molly

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
Fire on the ocean
Thunder on the sea
I think of handsome Molly
Wherever she may be

[Verse 2]
Now I'm either in this cab or bar
And never in the choir
Sometimes howling and amazed
Like the wind hung up on barbed wire

[Chorus]
Fire on the ocean
Thunder on the sea
I think of handsome Molly
And what she promised me

[Verse 3]
Well, it's prеtty doe-eyed Molly
Could see so wеll at night
It was a hard trade she made
Just to see it black and white

[Violin Solo]

[Verse 4]
Well, the word's gone down this north coast
And it's, "Boy, you best take care
Cut yourself with a knife
Find all the salt that's in the air"

[Chorus]
Fire on the ocean
Thunder on the sea
I think of handsome Molly
Who cried so easily

[Verse 5]
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

[Chorus]
Fire on the ocean
Thunder on the sea
I think of handsome Molly
Wherever she may be