I'LL TELL MY MA

Created on 15/08/2024
Latest update on 15/08/2024

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

Children song in Belfast.

Covers:

1962:

Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem [as I'll Tell Me Ma on LP The Boys Won't Leave The Girls Alone, which is a lyric line in the song]

1964:

Dubliners [idem]

1982:

Christie 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

1992:

Sinéad O'Connor [claimed it was sung in Dublin too and anywhere else in Ireland]

1994:

Roger Whittaker

1997:

Irish Rovers

1998:

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

2000:

Jan Smit [as The Belle Of Belfast]

2005:

Ronnie Drew

2006:

Young Dubliners

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