Intro: F   Bb F   Bb F   Bb F 

Verse 
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 


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              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 


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              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 
 

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              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 
F      C   F     Bb  F    Bb F 

    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? 


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              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..........