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Tue 07 Jul 2010Cart tart's bawdy heart
Molly Malone may not be the model woman we imagined, judging by a lost version of her song, writes Maev Kennedy
THE DUBLIN WITS who dubbed the statue of Molly Malone “the tart with the cart” as soon as it appeared on Grafton Street may not have been far off the mark. A tiny 18th-century book has turned up in a Welsh bookshop containing the earliest known version of Sweet Molly Malone, almost a century older than the capital’s unofficial anthem.
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