Old Maid In The Garret
The Clancy Brothers
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(início)
D Now I've often heard it said from me father and me mother A G D That going to a wedding is the making of another D G D Well, if this be so, then I’ll go without a biddin A O kind providence, won't you send me to a wedding
Chorus
D G D G And its O dear me, how would it be, D A D if I die an old maid in a garret
Verse 2
D Well, there's my sister Jean, she's not handsome or good-looking A G D Scarcely sixteen and a fella she was courting D G D Now she’s twenty-four with a son and a daughter A Here am I at forty-five and I've never had an offer
Chorus
D G D G And its O dear me, how would it be, D A D if I die an old maid in a garret
Verse 3
D I can cook and I can sew and I can keep the house right tidy A G D Rise up in the morning and get the breakfast ready D G D There's nothing in this wide world would make me half so cheery A As a wee fat man who would call me his own deary
Chorus
D G D G And its O dear me, how would it be, D A D if I die an old maid in a garret
Verse 4
D So come landsman or come pinsman, come tinker or come tailor A G D Come fiddler or come dancer, come ploughboy or come sailor D G D Come rich man, come poor man, come fool or come witty A Come any man at all that will marry me for pity
Chorus
D G D G And its O dear me, how would it be, D A D if I die an old maid in a garret
Verse 5
D Well now I'm away home for nobody's heeding A G D Nobody's heeding and to poor Annie’s pleading D G D I'll go away home to my own bitty garret A If I can't get a man, then I'll have to get a parrot
Chorus
D G D G And its O dear me, how would it be, D A D if I die an old maid in a garret
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