there s a belfast girl i loved and lost on the rolling hills around my home now she stays home nights behind locked doors since a plastic bullet stopped him and he don t come no more there s a belfast boy was loved and lost on the crowded streets of his own hometown pepper my heart with a lover s words and i ll pepper yours with a gatling gun mother my heart is full of lead and it weighs me down and i just can t cry remember me to schoolboy friends and tell it as it was please try so come by my boy and sit you down there s a tale to hear a tale to tell this town oh you say the devil will get me some day you can tell him i m waiting cause these are the things i must say mother my heart is full of lead and life holds few surprises too tell that to the little ones before they learn to laugh at you mother my heart is full of lead and it weighs me down and i just can t cry remember me to schoolboy friends and tell it as it was please try