Name: I'll tell my Ma
Duration: P00H02M24S
Description: This famous Irish somg Helen learned as a kid from her mother. Many years later we tried to made a new version.

I'll tell my Ma

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This famous Irish somg Helen learned as a kid from her mother. Many years later we tried to made a new version.

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I’ll tell me ma when I go home
the boys won’t leave the girls alone
they pull my hair, they stole my comb
but that’s all right when I go home
She is handsome, she is pretty,
she is the belle of Dublin City
she is counting 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
rings on her fingers, bells on her toes
Jenny 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
and the snow come tumbling from the sky
she’s as sweet as apple pie
and she’ll get her own love by and by
when she gets her lad of her own
she won’t tell her ma when she goes home
let them all come as they will
it’s Albert Mooney she loves still

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from Horse Power, released December 12, 2009

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slainte Zürich, Switzerland

Irish traditional songs and tunes and some other celtic sounds we and you like....Swiss made - from the Highlands of Zurich feat.
Barbrara Koenig (voc/guit/bouz) & Selina Leiber (acc) & Urs Bögli (fl, uilleann pipes) & Helen Lehmann(fiddle, voc) ... more

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Apr 2020
Horse Power

Dec 2009
Celtic Road

Mar 2004
live

Jun 1998
slainte

Nov 1989

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