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49 lines
1.2 KiB
49 lines
1.2 KiB
\selectlanguage{english}
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\songcolumns{2}
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\beginsong{I'll Tell my Ma}[by=Traditional]
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\lilypond{ill_tell_my_ma}
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\beginverse
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I'll \[G]tell my ma when \[C]I get \[G]home,
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The \[D]boys won't leave the \[G]girls alone
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They \[G]pull my hair and \[C]stole my \[G]comb
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But \[D]that's all right till \[G]I go home
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\endverse
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\beginchorus
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\[G]She is handsome, \[C]she is pretty,
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\[G]She is the Belle of \[D]Belfast city
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\[G]She is a courtin' \[C]one, two, three,
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\[G]Please won't you \[D]tell me \[G]who is she.
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\endchorus
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\beginverse
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Albert Mooney says he loves her,
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All the boys are fightin' for her
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Knock at the door and ring at the bell,
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Saying oh my true love, are you well
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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Out she comes as white as snow,
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Rrings on her fingers, bells on her toes
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Ould Johnny Morrissey says she'll die
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If she doesn't get the fella with the roving eye
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high
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And the snow come travellin' through the sky
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She's as sweet as apple pie,
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She'll get her own lad by and by
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\endverse
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\beginverse
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When she gets a lad of her own
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She won't tell her ma when she gets home
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Let them all come as they will
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For it's Albert Mooney she loves still
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\endverse
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\endsong
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