VAN MORRISON - ILL TELL ME MA. video free download


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Duration: 02:31
Uploaded: 2012/04/30

(I'll) tell me ma when I go home

The boys won't leave the girls alone

They pulled my hair, they stole my comb

But that's all right till I go home

(chorus):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

They knock at the door and they ring the bell

Saying, oh my true love, are you well?

She comes out as white as snow

Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes

Old Jenny Murphy says she'll die

If she doesn't get the guy with the roving eye

(Chorus)

Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high

Let the snow come tumbling from the sky

She's as sweet as apple pie

And she'll get her lad by and by

When she gets a 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

(Chorus)

Comments

8 years ago

mazyrun09

why do tims hate this tune so much ? haha

9 years ago

Sean Savage

This version has the tune to the Sash in it.

9 years ago

Vanessa Levy

I am Irish to

10 years ago

david robertson

Its colours they are fine

10 years ago

MrAaronHorner

Van Morrison is from East Belfast you idiot

10 years ago

Erik Sherman

Ah, plastic paddy ... Van Morrison (born in Belfast) and the Chieftains performing, by the way.

10 years ago

Bright Kelly

What an asshole comment. I'm from Philadelphia in the United States, and Irish pride is pretty big with my family. I have been performing trads like this for years, and bluntly crying "plastic paddy" is absurd. I don't know if you're aware, but an awful lot of paddy folk came to AMERICA in the last century. We brought the music along, you nitwit. Get over it.

10 years ago

Electricchris1

its meant to be happy you need to realise u arnt the only person in the world who has felt oppressed at some stage and not be taking it out on people who you have no business do it to ,i am australian and not plastic and trying hard not to be bitter about crap in my life ,

10 years ago

hello12390529

I am from Belfast I don't think anyone in this video has been anywhere near there. Plastic Paddy crap!!

11 years ago

stewart0312

Thumbs up if Boardwalk Empire S03 brought you here.

11 years ago

voy hich

Eire must be awesome !

11 years ago

lonergan2468

Always loved this, I always thought it was The Dublin skipping song..????

11 years ago

GersOnTour

Sure it is old and it is beautiful......

11 years ago

lonergan2468

A great Dubliners song !!!

11 years ago

Electricchris1

i kinda guessed it was some kind of dancing tune jig reel style ,skipping works for me :)

11 years ago

zoedaria

Thanks for posting this/is a Belfast skipping song and my mother sang it as a child/ goes back to early 1900"s

11 years ago

sphereinversion

So elegant!

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