The Old Maid in the Garrett/Tam Lin (Reel) Steeleye Span

I was told by my Aunt
I was told by my mother
That going to a wedding
Is the makings of another
Well if this be so
Then I'll go without a bidding
O kind Providence
Won't you send me to a wedding

And it's Oh dear me
How will it be
If I die an old maid
In a garret

Now there's my sister Jean
She's not handsome or good looking
Scarcely sixteen
And a fella she was courting
Now she's twenty-four
She's a son and a daughter
Here am I, forty-four
And I've never had an offer

I can cook and I can sew
I can keep a house right tidy
Rise up in the morning
And get the brеakfast ready
There's nothing in this widе world
That makes my heart so cheery
As a wee fat man
To call me his own deary