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The Scolding Wife
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Great Big Sea
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Well I came into a scolding wife a few short years ago
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And ever since I lead a life of misery and woe
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My wife she is a tyrant around the??
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Ah I'd sell her to the devil for a glass or two of gin
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Sure I'll get up and go to work as mild as any man
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And she'll get up and dress herself and go and have her dram
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And I chance to say a word it's well I know my due
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She'll follow me with the fire shovel up and down the room
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[Chorus:]
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And if the devil'd take her I'd thank him for his pain
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I swear to God I'll hang meself if I get married again
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And if the devil'd take her I'd thank him for his pain
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Though I swear to God I'll hang myself if I get married again
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When I get up at breakfast time she'll tap me on the head
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When I come home at dinner time I'll find her drunk in bed
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When I come home at supper time at patience I must stop
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'Cause she drinks what's in the teapot and I must drink the slop
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[Chorus:]
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Well once I asked me scolding wife if I could go to bed
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She scare gave me an hour on the pillow to lay me head
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When like a roarin' lion she came bustin' down the door
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She caught me by the middle and threw me naked on the floor
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Now me and my companions go to a public place
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She'll search around the neighbourhood until she finds my face
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She'll hoist me up in ridicule before the company
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Sayin' 'Petticoats is your master and forever more shall be'
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[Chorus (3x)]
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