Angelo Kelly & Family - I'll tell me ma

 

I′ll tell me ma when I go home

The boys won't leave the girls alone

They pull my hair, they steal my comb

But that′s all right till I get 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

Knock at the door and ring the bell

Saying, oh my true love, are you well?

Out she comes, white as snow

Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes

Old Johnny Murray says she'll die

If she doesn′t get the fellow with the roving eye.

Let the wind and the rain and the hail go high

Snow come tumbling from the sky

She′s as nice as apple pie

She'll get a fellow 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

It's Albert Mooney she loves still.

      PS: I admire this lifestyle because it’s an example for family’s unity today. "I'll Tell Me Ma" (also called "The Wind") is a traditional children's song. It was collected in various parts of the United Kingdom in the 19th century. In Ireland, especially within Ulster, the chorus usually refers to Belfast city and is known colloquially as "The Belle of Belfast City", although it is also adapted to other Irish cities, such as Dublin.

      The song accompanies a children's game. A ring is formed by the children joining hands, one player standing in the centre. When asked, "Please tell me who they be," the girl in the middle gives the name or initials of a boy in the ring (or vice versa). The ring then sings the rest of the words, and the boy who was named goes into the centre.  From Wikipedia