X: 1
T: I'll Tell My Ma
O: Trad Ireland
Z: 2006 John Chambers <jc@trillian.mit.edu>
M: C
L: 1/4
K: G
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w: I'll tell my ma when I go home the boys won't leave the girls a-lone. They
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w: pulled my hair and they stole my comb, well that's al-right till I go home.
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w: She is hand-some, she is pret-ty, she's the belle of Bel-fast Ci-ty.
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w: She is court-ing one two three, please won't you tell me who is she?
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W:Albert Mooney says he lover her,
W:All the boys are fighting for her.
W:They knock at the door and they ring at the bell,
W:Saying "Oh my true love are you well?"
W:Out she comes, as white as snow,
W:Ring on her fingers and bells on her toes.
W:Old Johnny Murray says she'll die
W:If she doesn't get the fellow with the roving eye.
W:
W:Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high,
W:And the snow com tumbling from the sky.
W:She's as nice as apple pie,
W:She'll get her own ad by and by.
W:When she get a lad of her own,
W:She won't tell her ma when she goes home.
W:Let them al come as they will,
W:For it's Albert Mooney she loves still.