MY favorites the version by Alison and Kirsty McMorland*, Lyrics are ever so slightly different: LAMENT OF A WORKING-CLASS HEROES WIFE O the wains are greeting and the sink is leaking And you're standing in the pub wi' your pint O Tartan Special, And you say you're educating all the younger generation In your left wing politics and that's a fact. CHORUS I ken I'm your wife but I'll no be your skivvy You're maybe the man, whit dae ye gimme? Cuts in ma money, cuts and bruises, That's no the story for a bloody life of glory! Well you say that the solution is a left wing revolution, But your drinking money's pockled fae the family allowance; All your Marx and all your Lenin does nae help me wi the cleaning And I've had to put my wedding ring intae the pawn CHORUS Well I really canna take it, so you're going to have to make it On your own, 'cos I'm going wi the wains and ma belongings And i'll maybe go to Maggie's or to Effie's or to Aggie's Cos i've got a lot of sisters that'll see me through! *song featuerd on "The Patter The Album" - Songs, Poems, Wit and Words of Glasgow
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