Chords:
{t:Old Maid In The Garret}
{artist:Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem}
{key: G}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z7_KHt94u8
{c: Thanks to wompton on https://ultimate-guitar.com }
{sos}
Now I've [G] often heard it said from me father and me mother
That [D] going to a wedding is the [C] making of a-[G]nother
{eos}
Now I've [G] often heard it said from me father and me mother
That [D] going to a wedding is the [C] making of a-[G] nother
Well, [G] if this be so, then I’ll [C] go without a [G] biddin
Oh kind providence, won't you send me to a [D] wedding
And its [G] Oh [C] dear [G] me, how would it [C] be,
if I [G] die an old [D] maid in a gar-[G]ret
Well, [G] there's my sister Jean, she's not handsome or good-looking
[D] Scarcely sixteen and a fe-[C] lla she was [G] courting
Now [G] she’s twenty-four with a [C] son and a [G] daughter
Here am I at forty-five and I've never had an [D] offer
And its [G] Oh [C] dear [G] me, how would it [C] be,
if I [G] die an old [D] maid in a gar-[G]ret
I can [G] cook and I can sew and I can keep the house right tidy
[D] Rise up in the morning and [C] get the breakfast [G] ready
There's [G] nothing in this wide world would [C] make me half so [G] cheery
As a wee fat man who would call me his own [D] deary
And its [G] Oh [C] dear [G] me, how would it [C] be,
if I [G] die an old [D] maid in a gar-[G]ret
So come [G] landsman or come pinsman, come tinker or come tailor
Come [D] fiddler or come dancer, come [C] ploughboy or come [G] sailor
Come [G] rich man, come poor man, come [C] fool or come [G] witty
Come any man at all that will marry me for [D] pity
And its [G] Oh [C] dear [G] me, how would it [C] be,
if I [G] die an old [D] maid in a gar-[G]ret
Well now [G] I'm away home for nobody's heeding
No-[D] body's heeding and to [C] poor Annie’s [G] pleading
I'll [G] go away home to my [C] own bitty [G] garret
If I can't get a man, then I'll have to get a [D] parrot
And its [G] Oh [C] dear [G] me, how would it [C] be,
if I [G] die an old [D] maid in a gar-[G]ret
