I'll tell me ma
I'll Tell Me Ma

Chorus

G C G D G
I'll tell me Ma when I get home , the boys won't leave the girls alone,
G C G D G
They pull my hair, they stole my comb but that's all right till I get home.
G C G D
She is handsome, she is pretty, she is the belle of Belfast City,
G C G D G
She is a courting, one two three, Please won't you tell me who is she

G C G D G
Albert Mooney says he loves her, all the boys are fighting for her,
G C G D G
They rap at the door and they ring at the bell saying 'Oh my true love are you well'
G C G D G
Out she comes as white as snow, rings on her fingers, bells on her toes,
G C G D G
Old Johnny Murray says she'll die if she doesn't get the fellow with the roving eye.

Chorus
G C G
Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high,
D G
And the snow come travelling from the sky
G C G D G
She's as nice as apple pie and she'll get her own lad by and by.
G C G D G
When she gets a lad of her own, she won't tell her Ma when she gets home,
G C G D G
Let them all come as they will, but it's Albert Mooney she loves still.

Chorus.......................



Belfast
Belfast Barnbrack
G Dm G F C G etc

G Dm G F C G
Of all the places I have been, there's only one that fills my dreams,
G Dm G F D
The place that lingers in my mind, is the town I've left behind.
G C
I've been away now for too many years,
D G D
I've read all the papers, they've told of your tears.
G C
Though I've left you, with a heart that's been torn,
D G D
I'm coming home now, to the place I was born

Chorus

G- Em C- Am D- D7 G D
That's Belfast, you call to me, when I am far away, I think of thee
G - Em C - Am
Your Black Mountain, Cave Hill, City Hall,
D - D7 G D
Shaw's Bridge, River Lagan, I'm going home to them all

G C
I'll meet friends and relations,each one I'll embrace,
D G D
We'll pass round the pictures, which time can't erase.
G C
And it won't be long now, till I see them all,
D G D
And I'll walk round the old streets and good times I'll recall

Chorus

G - Em C - Am D - D7 G D
In Belfast, you call to me, when I am far away, I think of thee.
G - Em C - Am
Your Black Mountain, Cave Hill , City Hall,
D - D7 G D
Shaw's Bridge , River Lagan, I'm going home to them all..
G - Em C - Am D - D7 G
I'm going home to them all