Irish Song Lyrics 
from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
Come Up the Stairs 
young Molly was handsome and pretty I've washed and put on me new coat and off to the mainland a courtin' I went in me small little boat 
CHORUS 
CHORUS Come up the Stairs, up the stairs, Come up the Stairs Molly O Come up the Stairs, up the Stairs, bring something to warm me old bones 
well I' hadn't gone more than four furlongs no more than ten minutes afloat when a big wave came up and capsized us meself and me small rowin' boat well up came great big sea serpent he was forty long feet now or more and he'd one look myself and me features and he offered to take to to shore 
CHORUS 
"oh where are you goin' in such weather?" "I was going courtin' Molly,"says I. "For there's no young ones left on the island so how's a young man to get by?" 
CHORUS 
why don't you and Molly get married and then you can both stay at home for it's better to suffer in marriage than cathin' your death in the cold 
CHORUS 
well tonight I will ask her to marry and I'm hopin' that she will agree for I'd rather be poor and be married than riskin' me life in the sea Come up the Stairs, up the stairs, Come up the Stairs Molly O Come up the Stairs Come up the Stairs, it's yourself can be warmin'me bones