Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - Old Maid in the Garrett Chords

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_ Now I've often heard it said from me father and me mother,
That going [D] to a wedding is the makings of another.
Well, if [C] this be so, [G] then they'll go without a bidding.
O kind Providence, won't you send me to a wedding?
And if so, dear me, how will it be if I die an [D] old maid in the garden?
[G] _ _ Well, now there's my sister Jean.
She's not handsome or good-looking. _
Scarcely sixteen and a fellow she was courting.
Now [C] she's twenty-four with a son and a daughter.
Here am I at forty-five and have never had an offer.
And if so, dear me, how will it be if I die an old [D] maid in the [G] garden? _ _
_ _ _ _ Oh, I can keep the house right tidy, [D] and rise up in the [G] morn to get the breakfast ready.
There's nothing in this [C] wide world would make me half so cheery
As a wee, fat man [Bm] who would call me his own dearie.
And if [G] so, dear me, how will it be if I die an [D] old maid in the [G] garden?
_ So come landsman or come kinsman, come tinkerer or come tailor,
[D] Come fiddler or come [G] dancer, come plough-buyer or come sailor,
Come rich man, come [C] poor man, come fool or come witty,
Come handyman at all that will marry me for pity.
And if so, dear me, how will [Am] it be if I die an [D] old maid in the [G] garden? _ _ _
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Well, now I'll away home for nobody's heeding.
Oh, nobody's [G] feeding, to poor Annie's pleading.
And I'll away [C] _ in pitty garret.
If I can't get a [Bm] man then I'll have to get a parrot.
And if [G] so, dear me, how will it be if I die an [D] old maid in the [G] garden?
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