George Cooper, 1863
My wife is a most knowing woman, She always is finding me out, She never will hear explanations But instantly puts me to rout, There’s no use to try to deceive her, If out with my friends, night or day, In the most inconceivable manner She tells where I’ve been right away, She says that I’m "mean" and "inhuman" Oh! my wife is a most knowing woman.
2. She would have been hung up for witchcraft |
3. Not often I go to dinner And come home a little "so so," I try to creep up through the hall-way, As still as a mouse, on tip-toe, She’s sure to be waiting up for me And then comes a nice little scene, "What, you tell me you’re sober, you wretch you, Now don’t think that I am so green! My life is quite worn out with you, man," Oh, my wife is a most knowing woman!
4. She knows me much better than I do, |
5. Yes, I must give all of my friends up If I would live happy and quiet; One might as well be’neath a tombstone As live in confusion and riot. This life we all know is a short one, While some tongues are long, heaven knows, And a miserable life is a husbands, Who numbers his wife with his foes, I’ll stay at home like a true man, For my wife is a most knowing woman. |
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