Belle Of Belfast City chords by Traditional

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Difficulty: Novice

Chorus:
 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?

Verse 1:
 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

Chorus:
 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?

Verse 2:
 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!

Chorus:
 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?

Chorus:
 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?