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I'll Tell Me Ma
Traditional Irish

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Chorus:
I'll tell me ma when I go home
The boys won't leave the girls alone
They pulled my hair and stole my comb
Well that's all right 'til I go home
She is handsome, she is pretty
She is the belle of Belfast city
She is courting one, two, three
Please won't you tell me who is she

Albert Mooney says he loves her
All the boys are fighting for her
They knock at the door, they ring at the bell
Saying, "Oh my true love, are you well?"
Out she comes as white as snow
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
Old Jenny Murray says she'll die
If she don't get the fella with
the roving eye...Chorus

Instrumental

Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high
And the snow come tumbling 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 gets home
Let them all come as they will
For it's Albert Mooney she loves still...Chorus 2x

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from Culled From the Garden 1991, released April 9, 1991
Aubrey Atwater: vocals, tin whistle
Elwood Donnelly: vocals, guitar
Noah Donnelly: bodhran

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Atwater-Donnelly Warren, Rhode Island

Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, present delightful programs of traditional American and Celtic folk songs, a capella pieces, old-time gospel songs, dance tunes, and original works, blending gorgeous harmonies with guitar, Appalachian mountain dulcimer, mandolin, tin whistle, harmonica, banjo, bones, spoons, limberjacks, and Appalachian clog dancing and French Canadian footwork. ... more

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