Tell My Ma - Rankin Family

[00:00.81] Tell my ma when I go home

[00:02.71] The boys won't leave the girls alone

[00:04.71] They pulled my hair and stole my comb

[00:06.96] But that's all right 'till I go home

[00:08.96] She is handsome, she is pretty

[00:11.21] She is the belle of Belfast city

[00:13.46] She is courting, one two three

[00:15.46] Please won't you tell me who is she?

[00:17.71] Albert Mooney says he loves her

[00:19.86] All the boys are fighting for her

[00:22.11] Knock on the door and they ring the bell

[00:24.11] Oh my true love, are you well?

[00:26.36] Here she comes, as white as snow

[00:28.36] Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes

[00:30.76] Old Johnny Mary she says she'll die

[00:32.76] If she doesn't get the boy with the roving eye

[00:35.01] Tell my ma when I go home

[00:37.01] The boys won't leave the girls alone

[00:39.01] They pulled my hair and stole my comb

[00:41.16] But that's all right 'till I go home

[00:43.41] She is handsome, she is pretty

[00:45.66] She is the belle of Belfast city

[00:47.41] She is courting, one two three

[00:49.66] Please won't you tell me who is she?

[00:51.91] Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high

[00:53.91] And the snow come tumbling from the sky

[00:56.16] She's as nice as apple pie

[00:58.16] She'll get her own boy, by and by

[01:00.41] When she gets a lad of her own

[01:02.16] She won't tell her ma 'till she comes home

[01:04.41] Let the boys stay as they will

[01:06.66] For it's Albert Mooney she loves still

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[01:24.91] Tell my ma when I go home

[01:26.91] The boys won't leave the girls alone

[01:29.16] They pulled my hair and stole my comb

[01:31.16] But that's all right 'till I go home

[01:33.16] She is handsome, she is pretty

[01:35.16] She is the belle of Belfast city

[01:36.91] She is courting, one two three

[01:38.91] Please won't you tell me who is she?

[01:41.16] Tell my ma when I go home

[01:43.16] The boys won't leave the girls alone

[01:45.41] They pulled my hair and stole my comb

[01:47.41] But that's all right 'till I go home

[01:49.66] She is handsome, she is pretty

[01:51.66] She is the belle of Belfast city

[01:53.91] She is courting, one two three

[01:55.91] Please won't you tell me who is she?

[01:58.16] Tell my ma when I go home

[02:00.16] The boys won't leave the girls alone

[02:01.91] They pulled my hair and stole my comb

[02:03.91] But that's all right 'till I go home

[02:05.91] She is handsome, she is pretty

[02:07.91] She is the belle of Belfast city

[02:09.91] She is courting, one two three

[02:12.16] Please won't you tell me who is she?