Tell Me Ma

Chorus

I'll tell my ma when I go home

The boys won't leave the girls alone

They pulled my hair, they stole my comb

But that's all right till I go home.

She is handsome, she is pretty

She is the bell of Belfast city

She is a courting one, two, three

Please won't you tell me who is she.

Now while Ronan says he loves her

All the boys are fighting for her

They knock at the door and they ring at the bell

Sayin' "Oh my true love, are you well?"

Here she comes as white as snow

Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes

Old Jenny Murray says she'll die

If she doesn't get the fellow with the roving eye.

Chorus

Let the wind and rain and the hail blow high

And the snow come shovelin' from the sky

She's as nice as apple pie

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 goes home

Let them all come as they will

For it's Rupert Hughes she loves still.