You can hear this at YouTube: I WISH I WAS A SINGLE GIRL AGAIN As recorded by the Maddox Brothers & Rose on "America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band, Vol. 1" (1993) When I was single I used to be afraid No one would ever wed me and I’d die a sour old maid. Now I am married and I set me down to weep ‘Cause my husband chaws terbacker and he snores in his sleep CHORUS: O Lord, I wish I was a single girl again. Lord, I wish I was a single girl again. When I was single and he used to come to court, He always brought me candy and I thought he was a sport. Now we are married, and what do you think? He bought a gingham apron and he showed me to the sink. When I was single I was lonesome and so blue. All the women with their babies called; I wished I had one too. Now I’ve got a baby; he’s as sweet as any rose, But ain’t it aggravatin’ when you have to clean their—nose.* [* This sounds like one of those jokes where the rhyming word leads you to expect a “naughty” word but they sing an innocent word instead. A male voice even remarks: “I thought you was gonna say somethin’ else!”--but I can’t think what a naughty word rhyming with “rose” would be.]
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