;I’ll Tell Me Ma
;Traditional


[NOTE: arrangement varies depending on who leads the song]


[chorus]
.     D               G     D
 I'll tell me ma when I get home
.    A                    D
 The boys won't leave the girls alone
.     D                       G        D
 They pulled my hair and they stole my comb
.    A                   D
 But that's alright till I get home
.D                G
 She is handsome, she is pretty
.D                   A
 She is the belle of Belfast city
.D                 G
 She is courtin' - one, two, three
.D              A       D
 Please won't you tell me who is she?
[]


.    D             G       D
 Now Albert Mooney says he loves her
.A                D
 All the boys are fightin' for her
.     D                        G           D
 They rap on her door and they ring on the bell
.         A                D
 Saying, "Oh my true love, are you well?"
.D                G
 Out she comes as white as snow
.D                        A
 Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
.D                G
 Old Jenny Murray says she’ll die
.       D               A              D
 If she doesn't get the fella with the roving eye


.A      A      A        A
 one,   two,   three,   four

[chorus]
.     D               G     D
 I'll tell me ma when I get home
.    A                    D
 The boys won't leave the girls alone
.     D                       G        D
 They pulled my hair and they stole my comb
.    A                   D
 But that's alright till I get home
.D                G
 She is handsome, she is pretty
.D                   A
 She is the belle of Belfast city
.D                 G
 She is courtin' - one, two, three
.D              A       D
 Please won't you tell me who is she?
[]


.        D                         G         D
 Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high
.        A                    D
 And the snow come shovellin' from the sky
.D                 G     D
 She's as sweet as apple pie
.    A                      D
 And she'll get her own lad by and by
.D               G
 When she gets a lad of her own
.    D                      A
 She won't tell her ma when she gets home
.D                 G
 Let them all come as they will
.     D      A      D
 It's Albert Mooney she loves still


.A      A      A        A
 one,   two,   three,   four

[chorus]
.     D               G     D
 I'll tell me ma when I get home
.    A                    D
 The boys won't leave the girls alone
.     D                       G        D
 They pulled my hair and they stole my comb
.    A                   D
 But that's alright till I get home
.D                G
 She is handsome, she is pretty
.D                   A
 She is the belle of Belfast city
.D                 G
 She is courtin' - one, two, three
.D              A       D
 Please won't you tell me who is she?
[]


[instrumental]


[chorus]
.     D               G     D
 I'll tell me ma when I get home
.    A                    D
 The boys won't leave the girls alone
.     D                       G        D
 They pulled my hair and they stole my comb
.    A                   D
 But that's alright till I get home
.D                G
 She is handsome, she is pretty
.D                   A
 She is the belle of Belfast city
.D                 G
 She is courtin' - one, two, three
.D              A       D
 Please won't you tell me who is she?
[]