Tell Me Ma Lyrics

I'll tell me ma when I go home,
The boys won't leave the girls alone.
They pull my hair, they stole my comb,
But that's all right 'til I go home.
She is handsome, she is pretty,
She's the belle of Belfast City,
She is courtin', a one, two, three
Please won't you tell me who is she?

Now Albert Mooney says he loves her,
All the boys are fighting for her.
Knocking on the door and ringing on the bell,
Saying, "Oh my true love, are you well?"
Down she comes as white as snow
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes.
Old Johnny Murphy says she'll die
If she doesn't get the fellow with the roving eye.

I'll tell me ma when I go home,
The boys won't leave the girls alone.
They pull my hair, they stole my comb,
But that's all right 'til I go home.
She is handsome, she is pretty,
She's the belle of Belfast City,
She is courtin', a one, two, three
Please won't you tell me who is she?

Let the wind and the rain and the hail come high,
And the snow come shoveling from the sky.
She's as nice as apple pie,
She'll get her own lad by and by!
When she gets a lad of her own
She won't tell her ma when she comes home.
Let them all come as they will
It's Patrick Murphy she loves still!

I'll tell me ma when I go home,
The boys won't leave the girls alone.
They pull my hair, they stole my comb,
But that's all right 'til I go home.
She is handsome, she is pretty,
She's the belle of Belfast City,
She is courtin', a one, two, three
Please won't you tell me who is she?
(2x)

Gaelic Storm - Gaelic Storm

Jul 1998

1. Hills Of Connemara
2. Bonnie Ship The Diamond/Tamlinn
3. The Farmer's Frolic
4. Johnny Jump Up/Morrison's Jig
5. The Storm
6. Tell Me Ma
7. Rock Road To Dublin/Kid On The Mountain
8. Sight Of Land
9. The Leaving Of Liverpool
10. Sammy's Fancy
11. McCloud's Reel/Whup Jamboree
12. The Road To Liskeard