Some time ago, when graft was raver short And didn't seem as though it would get better Says I, 'To get a wife I really ought And one that goes to work, if I can get 'er.' I found a gal, at church we made a call But since i've been in 'arness double jointed I finds that married life don't suit at all Well, to tell the truth, I'm downright disappointed
Chorus: Oh, she's too good to live is Mrs Carter She's a tarter, I'm the martyr I feels just as if I'd like to 'aht 'er Upon my word, she's awful aggrevatin' Why don't she jaw a bit, or cause a little riot, some 'ah? What's the use of couples getting married at all If yer never 'as a bloomin rah?
'Er pleasant ways they fair give me the 'ump' 'Cause I wasn't meant for 'oneymoonial blisses She's like a pound of 'tuppenny-'apenny lump' But I never could stand bread and cheese and kisses I wish we was the couple over-'ead 'Cause they bangs each others' 'eads wiv'aht compunction There's many a time you fink as 'e was dead And 'is face is like the map of Clapham Junction.
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I'm abserlootly sick o' this yer life I gets quite exasperooted like, and snappy I'd like a rah wiv someone else's wife 'Cause it's misery to me to be so 'appy I've done my 'werry best' to do my wust And all kinds of provvy-cations I've been givin' If we don't soon 'ave a fight I know I'll bust 'Cause 'ow's the magistrates to get their livin' =========================== Written and composed by Edgar Bateman & George Le Brunn Performed by Gus Elen (1862-1940)Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
