Misc Traditional – Belle Of Belfast City (Guitar)

 D                      A
I'll tell me ma when I go home,

    A7                    D
The boys won't leave the girls alone

D                        A
They pull my hair, they stole my comb,

    A7                    D
But that's all right 'til I go home

D                G
She is handsome, she is pretty,

D                  A7
She's the belle of Belfast City,

D                 G
She is courtin', a one, two, three

D                A       A7      D
Please won't you tell me who is she?

 D                      A
Now Albert Mooney says he loves her,

    A7                    D
An' all the boys are fighting for her.

D                                A
Knocking on the door and they're ringing on the bell,

    A7                     D
Saying, "Oh my true love, are you well?"

D                 G
Out she comes as white as snow

     D                          A7
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes.

D                  G
Old Jenny Murphy says she'll die

        D                 A              A7    D
If she doesn't get the fellow with the roving eye

 D                      A
I'll tell me ma when I go home,

    A7                    D
The boys won't leave the girls alone

D                        A
They pull my hair, they stole my comb,

    A7                    D
But that's all right 'til I go home

D                G
She is handsome, she is pretty,

D                  A7
She's the belle of Belfast City,

D                 G
She is courtin', a one, two, three

D                A       A7      D
Please won't you tell me who is she?

 D                      A
Let the wind and the rain and the hail come high,

    A7                D
And the snow come shoveling from the sky.

D                 A
She's as nice as apple pie,

A7                     D
She'll get her own lad by and by!

D                     G
an' |When she gets a lad of her own

D                           A7
She won't tell her ma when she comes home.

D                  G
Let them all come as they will

D             A       A7       D
It's Albert Mooney she loves still!

 D                      A
I'll tell me ma when I go home,

    A7                    D
The boys won't leave the girls alone

D                        A
They pull my hair, they stole my comb,

    A7                    D
But that's all right 'til I go home

D                G
She is handsome, she is pretty,

D                  A7
She's the belle of Belfast City,

D                 G
She is courtin', a one, two, three

D                A       A7      D
Please won't you tell me who is she?

 D                      A
I'll tell me ma when I go home,

    A7                    D
The boys won't leave the girls alone

D                        A
They pull my hair, they stole my comb,

    A7                    D
But that's all right 'til I go home

D                G
She is handsome, she is pretty,

D                  A7
She's the belle of Belfast City,

D                 G
She is courtin', a one, two, three

D                A       A7      D
Please won't you tell me who is she?