Lyr Add: Old Maid in the Garret

Subject: old maid in the garden
From:
Date: 17 Jan 97 - 10:52 AM

Does anyone have the lyrics to this song(not sure it thats the correct title). its a great tune and I'd like to be able to sing it as well as play it. I know the chorus is

and its oh dear me how would it be if I died an old maid in the garden.

Subject: old maid in the garden
From:
Date: 17 Jan 97 - 10:52 AM

Does anyone have the lyrics to this song(not sure it thats the correct title). its a great tune and I'd like to be able to sing it as well as play it. I know the chorus is

and its oh dear me how would it be if I died an old maid in the garden.

Subject: Lyr Add: OLD MAID IN THE GARRET
From:
Date: 17 Jan 97 - 06:26 PM

OLD MAID IN THE GARRET

Now I've often heard it said from me father and me mother
That the going tae a wedding is the making of another
Well, if this be true, I will go without a biddin'
O kind providence, won't you send me tae a wedding?

And its O dear me, how would it be,
If I die an old maid in a garret

Well, there's my sister Jean, she's not handsome or good-looking
Scarcely sixteen and a fella she was courting
Now at twenty-four with a son and a daughter
Here am I at forty-five and I've never had an offer

I can cook and I can sew and I can keep the house right tidy
Rise up in the morning and get the breakfast ready
There's nothing in this whole world would make me half so cheery
As a wee fat man to call me his own deary

So come landsman or come pinsman, come tinker or come tailor
Come fiddler or come dancer, come ploughboy or come sailor
Come rich man, come poor man, come fool or come witty
Come any man at all that will marry me for pity

Well now I'm away home for nobody's heeding
Nobody's heeding and nobody's pleading
I'll go away to my own bitty garret
If I can't get a man, then I'll have to get a parrot

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I think it's listed in the main archives of this page.

Tony Hurley

Subject: RE: old maid in the garden
From: belter
Date: 22 Jan 97 - 02:02 PM

there is a form of this song called the old maid song I think, wich is in the dt

Subject: Chords Add: OLD MAID IN THE GARRET
From:
Date: 23 Jan 97 - 02:56 AM

Hi Everyone, Sure you'd like guitar chords. This is how we do it:

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I have often heard it said from me father and me mother [A]

That going to a wedding was the making of another [E A]

Well, if this be so, I'll go without a bidding [A D A]

Oh it's kind providence, won't you send me to a wedding [A]

Chorus (repeat after each verse):

For it's oh dear me, how will it be, [D A D]

If I die an old maid in a garret [A E E7 A]

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Enjoy.

Bye

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Maid in the Garret
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 06:53 PM

Joe - further info needed. Anne Coleman has info on this.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Maid in the Garret
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 09:09 PM

We used to sing the last line: if I can't get a man, then I'll have to get a carrot...

(Bobbing and weaving away)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Maid in the Garret
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 11 Jan 22 - 11:07 AM

One of our oldest surviving folksongs. Medieval versions. We also have versions from all the intervening centuries.