Scolding Wife Lyrics - Sea Of No Cares - Great Big Sea

Well, I came into a scolding wife a few short years ago 

And ever since I lead a life of misery and woe 

My wife she is a tyrant around the room and in 

Ah, she'd sell me to the devil for a galss or two of gin 

Sure I'll get up and go to work as mild as any man 

And she'll get up and dress herself and go and have her dram 

And if I chance to say a word, it's well I know my doom 

She'll follow me with the fire shovel up and down the room 

And if the devil'd take her I'd thank him for his pain 

I swear to God I'll hang me self If I get married again 

And if the devil'd take her I'd thank him for his pain 

Oh, I swear to God I'll hang me self if I get married again 

When I get home at breakfast time she'll tap me on the head 

When I come home at dinner time I'll find her drunk in bed 

When I come home at supper time my patients I must stop 

'Cause she drank what's in the teapot and I must drink the slops 

Well, once I asked me scolding wife if I could go to bed 

She scarce gave me an hour on the pillow to lay me head 

When like a roarin' lion she came bustin' down the door 

She caught me by the middle and threw me naked on the floor 

And if the devil'd take her I'd thank him for his pain 

I swear to God I'll hang me self If I get married again 

And if the devil'd take her I'd thank him for his pain 

Oh, I swear to God I'll hang me self if I get married again 

Now, me and my companions go to a public place 

She'll search around the neighborhood until she finds my face 

She'll hoist me up and ridicule me for the company 

Saying, "petticoat is you master, and forevermore shall be." 

And if the devil'd take her I'd thank him for his pain 

I swear to God I'll hang me self If I get married again 

And if the devil'd take her I'd thank him for his pain 

Oh, I swear to God I'll hang me self if I get married again