Key: G# minor
Verse 1
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Well there once were a woman
and she skivvied on her own
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Em
She had two little boys and two little girls
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Yet she lived all alone with her husband
Well her husband, he was a hunk of a man
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D
He was a chunk of a man,
He was a hunk of a skunk,
of a horse -bend.
and he'd belt her black and
he'd belt her white,
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C
thrashed her to within an inch of her life
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D
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and then he'd snore like a pig.
Warder or spurned,
one night she gathered her tears
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E
all around her shame
and she covered up the bruising
and she cried with the pain.
For I can't live any more
with a drunken horse bend
And while her husband lay
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E
asleep in the bed
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sleeping horse bend.
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Well, she's set to work with a girlish thrill
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D
and a woman's eye and a
She bibbed and tucked with an iron will
and she stitched all around her
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sleeping horse bend.
Oh, the top sheet and the bottom
sheet too
and the blanket stitched
to the mattress through
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and waited for the dawn and her husband
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a pain in his head
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Fm
have I lost me legs?
In her hand she held the frying pan
And with the flutter of her heart
she flew at him
And he could not move,
Well, she belt in black,
and she belt in blue,
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with the frying pan and the colander too.
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E
bruising and repenting horse -bun.
I'll stitch you in and I'll thrash
you more
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And I'll pack me bags and I'll be gone
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E
For I can't live anymore
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Em
E
with a drunken husband
Now isn't it true
Now he's sobered up
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