Old Maid In The Garret
Jolly Beggarmen
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I have often heard it said
By me father and me mother
That going to a wedding
Is the makings of another
Well, if this be so
Then I'll go without a pity
Oh, it's fine providence
Won't you take me to a wedding?
And it's oh dear me, how would it be
If I died an old maid in the garret?
There's me sister Jean
She's not handsome or good-looking
And scarcely sixteen
And the fella she was courting
Now she's twenty-four
With a son and a daughter
Here am I, forty-four
And I never had an offer
And it's oh dear me, how would it be
If I died an old maid in the garret?
It's high the way home
For there's nobody heeding
There's nobody heeding
The poor old lad is bleeding
High the way home
To me own wee bit garret
If I can't get a man
Then I'll surely get a parrot
And it's oh dear me, how would it be
If I died an old maid in the garret?