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Nynia Lyr Req: There's Sure to Be a Row / ...Bound to Be (7) Lyr Add: THERE'S BOUND TAE BE A ROW^^ 08 Aug 00


Most Scots would say that the definitive version of this song was sung by the border shepherd Willie Scott. He sings more or less the same version of this with an extra verse and the last two verses the other way round.

There's Bound Tae Be A Row.

I'm a poor unhappy married man I such an awful wife
Tae please her I do all I can but still she plagues my life
If I do everything that's right she'll find some fault somehow
And If I just stay out all night there's bound tae be a row

There's bound tae be a row, there's bound tae be a row
And if I just stay out all night there's bound tae be a row

She wakes me in the morning in an auwfy cruel way
She kicks me out upon the floor not a hard word do I say
I have to wash my stockings, my shirts and fronts, I vow
And if I don't wash her's as well there's bound tae be a row

There's bound tae be a row, there's bound tae be a row
And if I don't wash her's as well there's bound tae be a row

She's taken in a lodger, he's single by and by
I've had tae get out the double bed and on the sofa lie
He gets the meat, I get the bones,that don't seem right somehow
And if I dare say half as much there's bound tae be a row

There's bound tae be a row, there's bound tae be a row
And if I dare say half as much there's bound tae be a row

Now she sometimes has a party for some friends who dine at eight
And I've tae hurry hame from work tae be on time tae wait
And as they order me about if I don't scrape and bow
And say "yes sir" and "thankee please" there's bount tae be a row

There's bound tae be a row, there's bound tae be a row
And say "yes sir" and "thankee please" there's bound tae be a row

And when I take my wages hame after working all week
I turn her every ha'penny o'er but still she has the cheek
To give me tuppence for myself for that I have to bow
And if I spend it all at once there's sure to be a row

There's bound tae be a row, there's bound tae be a row
And if I spend it all at once there's bound tae be a row

Whatever version you use enjoy singing it, I just thought you might like the missing verse.^^


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