{"id":1779,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/old-maid-in-the-garret"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"old-maid-in-the-garret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/old-maid-in-the-garret\/","title":{"rendered":"OLD MAID IN THE GARRET"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have often heard it said from me father and me mother,
\nThat going to a wedding was the making of another.
\nWell if this be so, then I’ll go without a bidding,
\nOh kind providence won’t you send me to a wedding.<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nFor it’s oh dear me, how will it be
\nIf I die an old maid in the garret?<\/p>\n

Oh now there’s my sister Jean, she’s not handsome or good looking’
\nScarcely sixteen and a fella she was courting’,
\nNow she’s twenty four with a son and a daughter,
\nhere am I forty-five, and I’ve never had an offer.<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

I can cook and I can sew, I can keep the house right tidy,
\nRise up in the morning and get the breakfast ready.
\nBut there’s nothing in this wide world would make me half so cheery
\nAs a wee fat man who would call me his own dearie.<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

Oh come landsman or come kinsman, come tinker or come tailor,
\nCome fiddler or come dancer, come ploughman or come sailor,
\nCome rich man come poor man, come fool or come witty,
\nCome any man at all who would marry me for pity<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>\n

Oh I’m away home for there’s nobody heeding’,
\nThere’s nobody heeding’ for poor Annie’s pleading’,
\nAnd I’m away home to me own wee bit garret,
\nIf I can’t get a man than I’ll surely get a parrot.<\/p>\n

Chorus<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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