Old Maid's Song
Come on landsman townsman a tinker or a tailor
Cowboy plowboy soldier or a sailor
Rich man poor man ugly or pretty
Don't let me stay an old maid
Take me out of pity
I had a sister Mary younger far than I am
She had so many because she had to deny them
Eighteen years old the day she was married
Here I'm nearly thirty long I have tarried
Come landsman townsman
I had a sister sally ugly and misshapen
Before she was sixteen she was taken
Before she was twenty a son and a daughter
Here I'm nearly thirty not even an offer
Well if I was wife I'd be so understandin'
He could go out every night to the tavern
I'd be savin' while he was out a spendin'
I'd make life so easy cookin' and a mendin'
Come a landsman townsman
Writer/s: J BAIRD, PD TRADITIONAL
