Maids When You're Young

Maids When You're Young
1791 (Roud 210)
1. An old man came courting me
(Hey dinga doorum down)
An old man came courting me
(Me being young)
An old man came courting me
Fain would he marry me
Maids when you're young never wed an old man
chorus:
For he's got no faloorum, hi diddle hi doorum down
For he's got no faloorum, hi diddle hi day
He's got no faloorum, he's lost his ding doorum
down
Maids when you're young, never wed an old man



this is the tune i like to sing it to:

2. When we went to the church
He left me in the lurch
Maids when you're young, never wed an old man
3.When we went up to bed
He lay like he was dead
Maids when you're young never wed an old man
4. Now when he went to sleep
Out of bed I did creep
Into the arms of a handsome young man
And I found his faloorum, hi diddle hi doorum
down
I found his faloorum, hi diddle hi day
I found his falodoorum and he got my ding doorum
down
Maid's When You're Young Maids when you're young never wed an old man