Old Maid in the Garret - Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - tab by wompton
[VERSE 1]
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Now I've often heard it said from me father and me mother
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That going to a wedding is the making of another
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Well, if this be so, then I’ll go without a biddin
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O kind providence, won't you send me to a wedding
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And its O dear me, how would it be,
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if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 2]
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Well, there's my sister Jean, she's not handsome or good-looking
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Scarcely sixteen and a fella she was courting
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Now she’s twenty-four with a son and a daughter
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Here am I at forty-five and I've never had an offer
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And its O dear me, how would it be,
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if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 3]
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I can cook and I can sew and I can keep the house right tidy
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Rise up in the morning and get the breakfast ready
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There's nothing in this wide world would make me half so cheery
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As a wee fat man who would call me his own deary
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And its O dear me, how would it be,
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if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 4]
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So come landsman or come pinsman, come tinker or come tailor
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Come fiddler or come dancer, come ploughboy or come sailor
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Come rich man, come poor man, come fool or come witty
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Come any man at all that will marry me for pity
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And its O dear me, how would it be,
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if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 5]
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Well now I'm away home for nobody's heeding
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Nobody's heeding and to poor Annie’s pleading
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I'll go away home to my own bitty garret
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If I can't get a man, then I'll have to get a parrot
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And its O dear me, how would it be,
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if I die an old maid in a garret
