I'll Tell Me Ma (Irish)

by Anonymous

For other versions of this work, see I'll Tell Me Ma.

I'll tell me ma when I go home
The boys won't leave the girls alone
They pulled my hair, they stole my comb
But that's alright till I go home

(chorus):She is handsome, she is pretty
She is the belle of Belfast city
She is a courting one, two, three
Please, won't you tell me, who is she?

Albert Mooney says he loves her
All the boys are fighting for her
They knock on the door and they ring at the bell
Saying, oh my true love, are you well?
Out she comes out as white as snow
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes
Old Jenny Murphy says she'll die
If she doesn't get the fellow with the roving eye

(Chorus)

Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high
And the snow come tumbling from the sky
She's as nice as apple pie
And 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
For it's Albert Mooney she loves still