Lyrics:
Well I came into a scolding wife a few short years agoAnd ever since I lead a life of misery and woeMy wife she is a tyrant around the room and innI should sell her to the devil for a glass or two of ginSure I'll get up and go to work as mild as any manAnd she'll get up and dress herself and go and have her dramI never chance to say a word, it's well I know my dueShe'll follow me with the fire shovel up and down the roomAnd if the devil would take her I'd thank him for his painI swear to God I'll hang myself if I get married againAnd if the devil would take her I'd thank him for his painThough I swear to God I'll hang myself if I get married againWhen I get up at breakfast time she'll tap me on the headwhen I come home at dinner time I'll find her drunk in bedWhen I come home at supper time at patience I must stop'Cause she drinks what's in the teapot and I must drink the slopAnd if the devil would take her I'd thank him for his painI swear to God I'll hang myself if I get married againAnd if the devil would take her I'd thank him for his painThough I swear to God I'll hang myself if I get married againWell one I asked me scolding wife if I could go to bedShe scarce gave me and hour on the pillow to lay my headWhen like a roarin' lion she came bustin' down the doorShe caught me by the middle and threw me naked on the floorAnd if the devil would take her I'd thank him for his painI swear to God I'll hang myself if I get married againAnd if the devil would take her I'd thank him for his painThough I swear to God I'll hang myself if I get married againNow me and my companions go to a public placeShe'll search around the neighborhood until she finds my faceShe'll hoist me up in ridicule before the companySaying', 'Petticoats is your master and forever more shall be!'And if the devil would take her I'd thank him for his painI swear to God I'll hang myself if I get married againAnd if the devil would take her I'd thank him for his painThough I swear to God I'll hang myself if I get married againAnd if the devil would take her I'd thank him for his painI swear to God I'll hang myself if I get married againAnd if the devil would take her I'd thank him for his painThough I swear to God I'll hang myselfI swear to God I'll hang myselfI swear to God I'll hang myself if I get married again