Chords for Steeleye Span-Old Maid in the Garrett

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I was told by my aunt, I was told by my mother,
That [C] going to a wedding [F] is the makings of another.
Well, if this be so, then I'll go without a bidder.
O kind Providence, won't you send me to a wedding?
And it's all dear to me.
How _ _ _ _ _ [C] maidenly God!
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Now, in case my sister Jean, she's not handsome or the locust,
[C] She's scarcely sixteen, and [F] the bell is she was put.
Now she's twenty [Bb]-four, she's [F] a son and a daughter,
Here am I, forty-four, and I've never had an offer,
And it's all dear to me.
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_ [F] I an old [C] maidenly God!
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_ _ _ _ _ I can cook and I can sew, I can keep the house right tidy,
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Rise up in the morning [F] and get the breakfast ready,
There's nothing [Bb] in this world [F] to make my heart so cheery as a wee fat man.
Call me his own dearie, and it's all dear to me.
How [Bb] _ _ [F]
I an old [C] maidenly God!
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Come landsmen, come townsmen, come tinker, all come tailor,
Come [C] fiddler, come dancer, come [F] plumber, all come [F] sailor,
Come rich man, come [Bb] poor man, come [F] fool, all come witty,
[Bb] Come any man at all, won't you marry a pretty?
And it's all dear [F] to me.
How [Bb] I an old maidenly [C] God!
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And it's all dear to me.
How I [Bb]
an [F] _ old maidenly [C] _ [F] God!
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[D] They say that [Bb] the women are worse than [C] the men.
They go down to hell and they don't let [A] them in.
They say that [Bb] the women are worse than [C] the men.
They go down to hell and they don't let [A] them in,
Naah!
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