I BAWLED
words and music by Bob Shane
© 1959, Highridge Music Corp.

Took my girlfriend home the other night,
got myself in an awful fight.
She said, "Doux, doux, darlin' won't you please come in."
Her old lady socked me with a rollin' pin.

And I bawled, I bawled,
Oh, Mon, you should have heard me bawl,
Well I bawl when I feel the pin,
I don't meet with that old woman again.
Oh, yes, I bawled, I bawled,
Oh, Mon, you should have heard me bawl,
Well I bawl when I feel the pin,
I don't meet with that old woman again.

Mon, the first time she hit me, she knocked me down,
wouldn't even let me get off the ground.
I tried to tell her of the rules of Queensberry.
She said, "Boy cuts no ice with me."
And I bawled...

Oh, Mon, talk about eternity,
that's what that encounter seemed to me.
She started to sneeze and I started to run,
Gone like a bullet from a machine gun.
And I bawled...

From "Kingston Trio: 50 Folk Song Favorites," published by Hansen Educational Music. Price, $1.50.
I'll post the tune if somebody asks, but I think it's not the kind of song where a tune would do much good.
-Joe Offer-