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 all right 'til I go home

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 after her

Rap at the door and ring on the bell

Oh, my true love, are you well?

Out she comes as white as snow

Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes

Wee Jenny Murray said 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 pulled my hair, they stole my comb

But that's all right 'til I go home

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?

A-skipping she's the best of all

She never slips, she never falls

Double Dutch or Heel and Toe

She's the one that steals the show

When they all come out to play

She's the one that leads the way

And Albert Mooney's always there

To see the girl with the golden hair

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 all right 'til I go home

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?

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 well

For it's Albert Mooney she loves still