Great Big Sea - Scolding Wife lyrics

Well I came into a scoldin 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
I should sell her to the devil for
A glass 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
I never chance to say a word
It's well I know my due
She'll follow me with the fire n
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 meself
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
Meself if I get married again
When I get up 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
With patience I must stop
Cause she drinks what's in the teapot
And I must drink the slop

And if the devil'd take her I'd
Thank him for his pain
I swear to God I'll hang meself
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
Meself if I get married again

Well once I asked me scoldin 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 to the door
She caught me by the middle an
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 meself
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
Meself if I get married again

Now me and my campanions go to a public place
She'll search around the neighbourhood until
She finds my face she'll hoist me up and
Ridicule before the company
Sayin "Petticoats is your master and
Forever more shall be"

And if the devil'd take her I'd
Thank him for his pain
I swear to God I'll hang meself
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
Meself if I get married again
And if the devil'd take her I'd
Thank him for his pain
I swear to God I'll hang meself
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
Meself if I get married again

And if the devil'd take her I'd
Thank him for his pain
I swear to God I'll hang meself
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
Meself if I get married again