Maids When You're Young
On Autumn Harvest AH 002
Old Songs & Bothy Ballads - Here's a Health to the Company
Sheila Stewart sings:
A traditional folksong widely known throughout the British Isles often under the title of An Old Man Come Courting Me that tells a tale of a young maid married to an old man and her escape into the arms of a handsome young man. Sheila has only recently started singing this song which she inherited from the singing of a great friend, singer, piper and storyteller the late Willie McPhee of Perth.
1: An old man come a-courtin me,
 Hi doo a darrity
An old man come a-courtin me,
Hi doo a day
An old man come a-courtin me,
Hi doo a darrity
Maids when you're young,
Never wed an auld man.
2: For when we went to wir tea,
He started teasin me,
When we went to wir tea,
Me being young;
When we went to wir tea,
He started squesin me,
Maids when you're young
Never wed an auld man.
3: For when we went to the church,
I left him in the lurch,
When we went to the church,
Me being young;
When we went to the church,
I left him in the lurch,
Maids when you're young,
Never wed an auld man.
4: For when we went to wir bed,
He lay as he was dead,
When we went to wir bed,
Me being young;
When we went to wir bed,
He lay as he was dead,
Maids when you're young,
Never wed an auld man.
5: For he had no toural,
Nor right fal da doural O,
He had no toural,
Nor devil-the-one;
He had no toural,
To fill my fa loural,
So maids when you're young,
Never wed an auld man.
6: But when he fell fast asleep,
Out of bed I did creep,
When he fell fast asleep,
Me being young;
When he fell fast asleep,
Out of bed I did creep,
Into the arms of a
Handsome young man.
7: For he a toural aye
Right fal da doural O,
He a toural,
A Hell-of-a-one;
He a toural that
Filled my fa loural,
So maids when you're young,
Never wed an auld man.
8: So there we played pitch-and-toss,
Hi doo a darrity
There we played pitch-and-toss,
All the night long;
There we played pitch-and-toss,
My maidenheid I loss,
Maids when you're young,
Never wed an auld man.
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