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 alright till I go home
She is handsome, she is pretty
She's the belle of Belfast city
She is a-courting, a-one, two, three
Please won't you tell me who is she?

Now, Albert Mooney says he loves her
And all the boys are fighting for her
They're knocking on the door and they're ringing on the bell
Saying, "Oh, my true love, are you well?"
Out she comes as white as snow
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
Old Johnny Murphy says she'll die
If she doesn't get the fellow with the roving eye

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 alright till I go home
She is handsome, she is pretty
She's the belle of Belfast city
She is a-courting, a-one, two, three
Please won't you tell me who is she?
Let the wind and the rain and the hail come high
And the snow come shoveling from the sky
She's as nice as apple pie
And she'll get her own lad by and by
When she gets a lad of her own
She won't tell her ma when she comes home
Let them all come as they will
But it's Patrick Murphy she loves still!

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 alright till I go home
She is handsome, she is pretty
She's the belle of Belfast city
She is a-courting, a-one, two, three
Please won't you tell me who is she?

She is handsome, she is pretty
She's the belle of Belfast city
She is a-courting, a-one, two, three
Please won't you tell me who is she?