I'LL TELL MY MA

Created on 17/10/2002
Latest update on 21/11/2023

Artist: David Hammond
Author: Francie McPeake
Label: Tradition
Year: 1959

Old West Belfast children song.

Covers:

1962:

Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem [as I'll Tell Me Ma; vocal: Tommy Makem on lp The Boys Won't Leave The Girls Alone (which is a lyric-line from I'll Tell Me Ma)]

1964:

Dubliners [idem]

1982:

Christy Moore [idem]

1987:

Peter Gabriel [in German tv show Illusionen]

1988:

Van Morrison & The Chieftains [as I'll Tell Me Ma]

1990:

Rankin Family

1992:

Phil Coulter

1994:

Roger Whittaker

1997:

Irish Rovers

1998:

Sham Rock [as Tell Me Ma; top 20 UK]

2000:

Jan Smit [as The Belle Of Belfast]

2002:

Sinéad O'Connor [popular in Dublin as well, says she (and anywhere else in Ireland)]

2005:

Ronnie Drew

2006:

Young Dubliners

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