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Tell Me Ma

from Shenanigans by The New Ruffians

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Traditional arranged by The New Ruffians

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Tell me ma when I go home
The boys won’t leave the girls alone
They pull their hair, they steal their comb
But that’s all right till I go home
She is handsome, she is pretty
She is the belle of Belfast City
She is a 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 they ring that bell
Oh my true love, are you well?
Out she comes as white as snow
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes
Old Jenny Murphy says she’ll die
If she doesn’t get the fellow with the roving eye

Tell me ma when I go home
The boys won’t leave the girls alone
They pull their hair, they steal their comb
But that’s all right till I go home
She is handsome, she is pretty
She is the belle of Belfast City
She is a courting one, two, three
Please won’t you tell me who is she?

Let the wind and the rain and the hail go high
And snow come a shovelling from the sky
She’s as happy as apple pie
And she’ll get her own lad by and by
When she gets a lad of her own
She won’t tell her Ma till she comes home
All the boys come as they will
For it’s Albert Mooney she loves still

Tell me ma when I go home
The boys won’t leave the girls alone
They pull their hair, they steal their comb
But that’s all right till I go home
She is handsome, she is pretty
She is the belle of Belfast City
She is a courting one, two, three
Please won’t you tell me who is she?

credits

from Shenanigans, released November 27, 2020
Daran Crook: Vocal and Guitar
Paul Dunn: Cajon, Percussion and Banjo
David Dunn: Bass Guitar
Richard Harvey: Accordion

Recorded and engineered by Sam Draisey
Mixed by Paul Dunn and Mike Wyatt
Mastered by Mike Wyatt

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The New Ruffians Wolverhampton, UK

Four multi-instumentalist Midlanders playing a heady mix of traditional Celtic music, Ska, R’n’R, Indie & Punk.

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