Artist: | The Dubliners (English) |
User: | Klaus Peter |
Duration: | 180 seconds |
Delay: | 10 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Maids When You're Young Never Wed An Old Man
By The Dubliners, Luke Kelly doing the singing.
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[1] An old man came courting me, hey ding durum da,
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An old man came courting me, me being young,
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An old man came courting me, said he would marry me,
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Maids when you're young never wed an old man.
[Chorus]
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Because he's got no falurum, fal-diddle dei durum,
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He's got no falurum, fal-diddle dei da,
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He's got no falurum, he's lost his ding durum,
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Maids when you're young never wed an old man.
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[2] When we went to church, hey ding durum da,
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When we went to church, me being young,
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When we went to church, he left me in the lurch,
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Maids when you're young never wed an old man.
[Chorus]
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Because he's got no falurum, fal-diddle dei durum,
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He's got no falurum, fal-diddle dei da,
G C G D
He's got no falurum, he's lost his ding durum,
G C D7 G
Maids when you're young never wed an old man.
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[3] When we went to bed, hey ding durum da,
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When we went to bed, me being young,
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When we went to bed, he lay like he was dead,
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Maids when you're young never wed an old man.
[Chorus]
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Because he's got no falurum, fal-diddle dei durum,
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He's got no falurum, fal-diddle dei da,
G C G D
He's got no falurum, he's lost his ding durum,
G C D7 G
Maids when you're young never wed an old man.
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[4] So_I_threw me leg over him, hey ding durum da,
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Just to oblige him, me being young,
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I flung me leg over him, damned nearly smothered him,
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Maids when you're young never wed an old man.
[Chorus]
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Because he's got no falurum, fal-diddle dei durum,
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He's got no falurum, fal-diddle dei da,
G C G D
He's got no falurum, he's lost his ding durum,
G C D7 G
Maids when you're young never wed an old man.
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[5] When he went to sleep, hey ding durum da,
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When he_was half asleep, me being young,
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When he went to sleep, out of the night I creep,
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Into the arms of a handsome young man.
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[6] And_I found his falurum, fal-diddle dei durum,
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I found his falurum, fal-diddle dum dei,
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I found his falurum, he's got my ding durum, now
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Maids when you're young never wed an old man.