Name: I'll Tell Me Ma
Duration: P00H01M52S
Description: Traditional Irish folk song

I'll Tell Me Ma

from Foggy Morning by A Shamrock In Kudzu

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Traditional Irish folk song

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I'll tell me ma when I get home
The boys won't leave the girls alone.
Pulled my hair and stole my comb
But that's alright till I get home.
She is handsome, she is pretty
She is the belle of Dublin city
She is a-courting one, two, three
Pray can you tell me who is she?

Albert Mooney says he loves her
All the boys are fighting for her
Knocking at the door, they're a-ringing at the bell
"Hello my true love, are you well?"
Out she comes, white as snow
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
Old 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 blow high
And the snow come a-tumbling from the sky.
She's as sweet 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
It's Albert Mooney she loves still.

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from Foggy Morning, released October 24, 2016
Lead Vocal: Phil Hartline
Backup Vocals: Linda Sartain, Bethany Sartain, Caroll Hartline, Hannah Downs
Mandolin: Phil Hartline
Fiddle: Hannah Downs
Whistles: Linda Sartain
12-string guitar: Bill Cantrell
Percussion: Caroll Hartline

Recorded by Dennis Moore
Mixed by Linda Sartain
Mastered by Dennis Moore

This arrangement © 2016 A Shamrock In Kudzu

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