The Old Maid In The Garrett Lyrics & Chords By Steeleye Span

I was told by my Aunt I was told by my Mother That going to a wedding Is the making of another Well if this be so Then I'll go without a bidding Oh kind Providence Won't you send me to a wedding And it's oh dear me how will it be If I die an old maid in the garrett Now there's my sister Jean She's not handsome or good-looking Scarcely sixteen And a fellow she was courting Now she's twenty-four She's a son and a daughter Here am I, forty-four And I've never had an offer And it's oh dear me how will it be If I die an old maid in the garrett I can cook and I can sew I can keep a house right tidy Rise up in the morning And get the breakfast ready There's nothing in this wide world That makes my heart so cheery As a wee fat man To call me his own deary And it's oh dear me how will it be If I die an old maid in the garrett Oh dear me Oh come landsman, come townsman Come tinker or come tailor Come fiddler, come dancer Come ploughman or come sailor Come rich man, come poor man Come fool or come witty Come any man at all Won't you marry out of pity? And it's oh dear me how will it be If I die an old maid in the garrett And it's oh dear me how will it be If I die an old maid in the garrett They say that the women are Worse than the men They go down to Hell And they're thrown out again