Maids When You're Young (Never Wed an Old Man) - The Dubliners

Well an old man came courting me, hey ding-doorum dow

An old man came courting me, me being young

An old man came courting me, fain he would marry me

Maids when you’re young never wed an old man

Because he’s got no faloorum, faliddle aye oorum

He’s got no faloorum, faliddle dal day

He’s got no faloorum, he’s lost his ding-doorum

So maids when you’re young never wed an old man

When we went to church, hey ding-doorum dow

When we went to church, me being young

When we went to church, he left me in the lurch

Maids when you’re young never wed an old man

When we went to bed, hey ding-doorum dow

When we went to bed, me being young

When we went to bed, he lay like he was dead

Maids when you’re young never wed an old man

So I threw me leg over him, hey ding-doorum dow

I flung my leg over him, me being young

I threw me leg over him, damn well near smullered him

Maids when you’re young never wed an old man

When he went to sleep, hey ding-doorum dow

When he went to sleep, me being young

When he went to sleep, out of bed I did creep

Into the arms of a handsome young man

And I found his faloorum, faliddle aye oorum

I found his faloorum, faliddle aye ay

I found his faloorum, he got my ding-doorum

So maids when you’re young never wed an old man