I'll Tell My Ma

I'll Tell My Ma - The Clancy Brothers

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 get home

She is handsome she is pretty

She is the bell of belfast city

She is a-courtin' one two three

Please can you tell me who is he

Albert mooney says he loves her

All the boys are fighting for her

They knock at the door

And they ring at the bell saying

Oh my true love are you well

Out she comes as white as snow

Rings on her fingers

And bells on her toes

Ol' jenny murray says she'll die

If she doesn't a man with a roven eye

Let the wind and the rain and the breeze blow high

And the snow come falling 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

But it's Albert Mooney she loves still

I'll tell me ma

When I get home

The boys won't leave

The girls alone

They pulled my hair

They stole my comb

But that's alright

Till I get home