My wife was kind enough to get me a third camera I wanted, so I thought I would try it out with an easy song to start off with. I’ll Tell Me Ma is great song to try on frailing banjo. I really feel that the song was perfectly made for playing frailing / clawhammer banjo. Try it out and have fun with it!

I’ll Tell Me Ma

I’ll Tell Me Ma(PDF)

I’LL TELL ME MA

I’ll [G]tell me ma when I go home,

The [D7]boys won’t leave the [G]girls alone,

They pulled me hair and stole me comb,

But [D7]that’s alright ’till [G]I go home,

She is handsome [C]she is pretty,

[G]She is the belle of [D7]Belfast city,

[G]She is a courtin’ [C]one two three,

[G]Please won’t you [D7]tell me who is [G]she.

Albert Mooney says he loves her,
All the boys are fightin’ for her,
They knock at the door and they ring at the bell,
Saying Hello me true love, are you well?
Out she comes, white as snow,
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes,
Ould Johnny Morrissey says she’ll die,
If she doesn’t get the fella with the rovin’ eye.

(Chorus)

Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high,
And the snow come travellin’ through the sky,
She’s as sweet as apple pie,
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 gets home.
Let them all come as they will,
For it’s Albert Mooney she loves still.