Old Maid In The Garret

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