I'll Tell Me Ma


I'll tell me ma when I get home
The boys won't leave the girls alone
They pull my hair, they steal my comb
But that's all right till I get home
She is handsome, she is pretty
She is the belle of Belfast city
She is courting one, two, three
Hey, won't you tell me, who is he?
Albert Mooney says he loves her
All the boys are fighting for her
Knock at the door and ring the bell
Hey, my true love, are you well
Out she comes as white as snow
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes
Our Jenny Murry says she'll die
If she doesn't get the fellow with the roving eye
Let the wind and the rain and the hail go high
Snow come tumbling from the sky
She's as nice as apple pie
She'll get a fellow by and by
When she gets a lad of her own
She won't tell her ma when she gets home
Let them all come as they will
It's Albert Mooney she loves still


Writer/s: Jörgen Elofsson

I'll Tell Me Ma de Clancy Brothers

This song appears in 22 albums


The Shuttering Lover
2015

I Love Music (Only Original Recondings)
2015

The Rising of the Moon
2015

The Diamond Collection
2015

The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone
2015

The Clancy Brothers - Classic Hits Remastered
2014

The Folk Collection 1955-1962
2014

The Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1 (Special Remastered Edition)
2013

Ultimate Collection (Special Extended Remastered Edition)
2013

Very Best Of
2013

The Clancy Brothers Collection 1956-62
2013

Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
2013

Their Greatest Hits
2013

O'Donahue
2013

The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone
2013

Songs of Ireland (feat. Tommy Maken & Peg Clancy)
2012

The Wild Colonial Boys
2012

The Wild Colonial Boys (feat. Tommy Makem)
2012

The Parting Glass
2011

30 Songs of Ireland
2010

St. Paddy's Day With the Clancy Brothers
2010

The Absolutely Essential Collection
1961
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