I'll Tell My Ma

Chorus
  C
I'll tell my ma when I go home
          G                                     C
The boys won't leave the girls alone
  C
They pulled my hair and they stole my comb
         G                          C
But that's alright 'til I go home.
  C                              F
She is handsome she is pretty
   C                              G
She is the belle of Belfast City
  C                        F
She is courting 1, 2, 3,
   C                            G             C
Please won't you tell me who is she?

  C
Albert Mooney says he loves her
  G                         C
All the boys are fighting for her
  C
Knock at the door and ring the bell
  G                                  C
Say, oh, my true love, are you well     Chorus

  C
Out she comes as white as snow
  G                                 C
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes
  C
Our Jenny Murry says she'll die
  G                                                          C
If she doesn't get the fellow with the roving eye    Chorus

  C
Let the wind and the rain and the hail go high
  G                                 C
Snow come tumbling from the sky
  C
She's as nice as apple pie
  G                                  C
She'll get her own boy by and by     Chorus

  C
When she gets a lad of her own
  G                                           C
She won't tell her ma when she gets home
  C
Let them all come as they will
  G                            C
It's Albert Mooney she loves still     Chorus
 

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