Molly Durkin is an Irish folk song made popular by Murty Rabbett in the 1940s in the United States. It is a derivation of the song Mursheen Durkin.[1]
The song has a lively tempo and a man who decides to give up his work as a mortar shoveler (probably an asphalt shoveler as well) to take up shoveling gold in California is whimsically described. The song is not so much a song of leaving Ireland as it is an Irishman's response to a woman's scorn.[2]