Tell Me Ma

I'll tell me ma when I'm goin' home

The boys won't leave the girls alone

They pull my hair, they stole my comb

But that's alright '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

And all the boys are fighting for her

They're knockin' on the door and they're ringin' on the bell

Saying, "Oh, my true love, are you well?"

Out 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 rovin' eye

I'll tell me ma when I'm goin' home

The boys won't leave the girls alone

They pull my hair, they stole my comb

But that's alright '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 shovelin' 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

It's Patrick Murphy she loves still

Tell me ma when I'm goin' home

The boys won't leave the girls alone

They pull my hair, they stole my comb

But that's alright '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?

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?