POOR OLD MAID



Here I am, as you can see, poor old maid

All the way from Kankakee, poor old maid

My disposition's very mild

I'm just as meek as a little child

And for a husband I am wild, poor old maid



My younger sisters all are wed, poor old maid

From living single, I'm nearly dead, poor old maid

I pull my nightcap o'er my head

No loving words to me are said

All alone I go to bed, poor old maid



I dreamed a dream the other night ...

Oh that dream was out of sight ...

I dreamed a man at my window scaled

His moustache brushed my cheek so pale

I woke and found it was the tomcat's tail ...

I'm wandering from sea to sea

For any man whoe'er he be

It seems there is no hope for me

For while spring chickens are so free

The boys don't want old hens like me



Dressed in yellow, pink, and blue

My heart is almost broke in two

Dressed in yellow, pink and blue

I'm just as fresh as the morning dew

Boys, I'll have just any of you



@courtship

see also OLDMAID1 OLDMAID2

printed in Folksongs of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Shellans

Collected from John Daniel Vass

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