Hello. I sang 'Tell Me Ma' with Sham Rock. My Irish grandparents taught me the song when I was little. It's "The Belle of Belfast City", because its alliterative, apparently, and I learned to sing "Old Jenny Murray says SHE will die if SHE doesn't get the fella with the roving eye." - which makes sense, if you think about it. Mind you, folk songs are all passed down by aural tradition & get changed over the years - so no version can really be the definitive one. My granny said it was a skipping song when she was a child in 1906. Hope that's useful.
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