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?