Chords for Luke Kelly Maids When Your Young

[G] The next song is a song which is dedicated to all the young ladies in the audience and
in the country.
_ It's a warning to them, it's a very moral song, never to associate with old men like
this lot here.
It applies to old ladies from nine to 99, _ every one of you.
And it goes like this.
Because he's got no fa-loorum, fa-little [D] eye [G]-room, got no fa-loorum, fa-little old age.
He's got [C] no fa [G]-loorum, he's lost his ding-do-room, late [C] and near, [Bm] young never [G] well, an old man.
An old man came courting me, [D] hey, ding-do-room-down.
_ [G] An old man came courting me, me, me, young.
An old man [C] came [G] courting me, fain would [D] he [G] marry me, me, me, [C] young, [D] never well, [G] an old man.
Because he's got no fa-loorum, fa-little [D] eye [G]-room, got no fa-loorum, fa-little old age.
He's got [C] no fa [G]-loorum, he's lost [D] his ding-do-room, [G] me, me, young, never well, an old man. _
When we went to church, [D] hey, ding-do-room-down. _
[G] When we went to church, me, me, young. _
When [C] we went [G] to church, he left [D] me [G] in the lurch, a mate [C] a near [D] young, never [G] well, an old man.
Tell me why.
Because he's got no fa-loorum, fa-little [D] eye [G]-room, he's got no fa-loorum, fa-little old age.
He's got [C] no fa [G]-loorum, he's lost [D] his ding [G]-do-room, me, [Em] me, young, never [D] [G] well, an old man.
_ _ _ When we went to bed, hey, [D] ding-do-room-down.
_ _ [G] When we went to bed, me, me, young.
_ _ [C] When we went [G] to bed, he lay [D] like he [G] was dead, a mate a [C] near [D] young, never [G] well, an old man.
Because he's got no fa-loorum, fa-little eye-room, he's got no fa-loorum, fa-little old age.
He's [C] got no fa [G]-loorum, he's [D] lost his ding-do [G]-room, [C] me, me, young, [D] never well, [G] an old man.
So I threw me leg over him, hey, [D] ding-do-room-down.
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Just to oblige him, me, me, young, I flung me [C] leg [G] over him down [D] well near [G] smothered him, hey, [C] ding-do-room-down.
He's a near young, never [D] well, [G] an old man.
Because he's got no fa-loorum, fa-little eye-room, he's got no fa-loorum, fa-little old age.
He's [C] got no fa [G]-loorum, he's [D] lost his ding-do [G]-room, me, [C] me, young, [D] never [G] well, an old man.
When he went to sleep, [D] hey, ding-do-room-down.
_ [G] When he was fast asleep, me, me, young,
_ When [C] he went [G] to sleep out of bed, I'd creep into [C] the [D] arms of a handsome [G] young man.
I found his fa-loorum, fa-little [D] eye [G]-room, I found his fa-loorum, fa-little old age.
I [Am] found his fa [G]-loorum, he [D] got my ding-do [G]-room, now [C] me, me, [D] young, never well, [G] an old man.
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