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OH DEAR HOW I LONG TO GET MARRIED, by                    
First Line: I am a damsel so blooming and gay
Last Line: "I am tired, etc"
Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives


I am a damsel so blooming and gay,
Who along with the females must mingle,
It's a shocking thing, lack-a-day,
When a maid is compell'd to live single.
My age is just twenty-three,
And of wedlock I fear I've miscarried,
Then pray get a husband for me,
For Oh! dear how I long to get married.

Chorus
I am tired of lying alone.

There's Victoria our blooming young Queen,
'Cause she's money she's suitors in plenty,
She got married one cold winter's day,
And she was but just turned of twenty.
She has now got a girl and a boy
In her arms through the park for to carry,
Is there no one in want of a wife?
Oh! dear how I long to get married.
I am tired, etc.

* * *

I would marry a tinker, a sweep,
A dustman, a cobbler, or tailor,
A coalheaver, a butcher, or baker,
A farmer, or soldier, or sailor,
If he had never a shirt to his back
Or a nose to his face, I'd him carry
To church any day in a crack,
For Oh! dear how I long to get married.
I am tired, etc.

* * *

I would make an excellent wife,
I would clean well the plates and dishes,
My husband I would help into bed,
Wash his shirt well and mend up his breeches,
His breakfast up to his bedside
Every morning I speedily would carry,
And I'd help for to dress him besides,
Oh! dear how I long to get married.
I am tired, etc.

I would clean up the passage and floor,
And place everything neat on the table,
There is nothing would please me so much
As to sit down a-rocking the cradle.
'Tis a shame for a maiden like me
So long for a husband to tarry;
No pleasure at all can I see,
Oh! dear how I long to get married.
I am tired, etc.





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