Key: F
Introduction: F Bb F Bb F Bb F
F
I was told by my Aunt, I was told by my mother
C F
That going to a wedding is the makings of another
Bb F
Well, if this be so, then I'll go without a bidding
Bb F
Oh, kind Providence, won't you send me to a wedding
Bb F
And it's, oh, dear me
Bb
How will it be
F
If I die an old maid
C F
In the garret
Verse
F
Now there's my sister Jean, she's not handsome or good looking
C F
Scarcely sixteen and a fella she was courting
Bb F
Now she's twenty-four, she's a son and a daughter
Bb F
Here am I, forty-four and I've never had an offer
Bb F
And it's, oh, dear me
Bb
How will it be
F
If I die an old maid
C F
In the garret
Verse
F
I can cook and I can sew, I can keep a house right tidy
C F
Rise up in the morning and get the breakfast ready
Bb F
There's nothing in this wide world that makes my heart so cheery
Bb F
As a wee fat man to call me his own Deary
Bb F
And it's, oh, dear me
Bb
How will it be
F
If I die an old maid
C F
In the garret
Instrumental
Bb F Bb F C F
Oh, dear me
Verse
F
Oh, come landsman or come townsman, come tinker or come tailor
C F
Come fiddler, come dancer, come ploughman or come sailor
Bb F
Come rich man, come poor man, come fool or come witty
Bb F
Come any man at all, won't you marry out of pity?
Bb F
And it's, oh, dear me
Bb
How will it be
F
If I die an old maid
C F
In the garret
Bb F
And it's, oh, dear me
Bb
How will it be
F
If I die an old maid
C F Dm Bb C
In the garret..........