Moore St. Girls

I walk along the cobbled streets of Dublin in the rain The Man selling papers, I ask him if he's heard her name Notorious are the stories, you have to meet the girls If you ask a sailor, they're known around the world You can meet them on the corner They are the Moore Street girls This is the street their world Their seducing smiles are nothing you'll ever know They will allure you, they'll put you in a trance Before you know it you'll be tapping the street Doin' an Irish dance, hey! It's said they have the power to sell a map to a salmon The tourist from the desert goes home with a bucket of Sandymount sand Fresh fruit and veggies smelly fish they have them all Their sad and hardened faces still they smile and have a ball They'll make you buy your dog a dozen roses They are the Moore Street girls This is the street their world Their seducing smiles are nothing you'll ever know They will allure you, they'll put you in a trance Before you know it you'll be tapping the street Doin' an Irish dance, hey! Where have all the girls all gone? We used to love them used to listen to their dirty Dublin songs Where have all the girls all gone? They can be grumpy still we love them Oh what a shame I stopped and talked to Rosie, I asked her would she sing me a song She turned to me with angry eyes, I ask her, "Rosie what is wrong?" The foreigners in the market, the vermin of the world With all their ugly faces from lands you've never heard Oh what a shame you'll never know them Oh what a shame you'll never know them