Malcolm, I'm not all that busy at the moment so I'll save you the trouble, now that you have identified where it could be found.


SEVEN MONTHS I'VE BEEN MARRIED

Seven months I've been married and all to my grief
Seven months I've been married but found no relief
Seven months I've been married but still I'm a maid
For I'm ruined, I'm ruined forever, she said

Oh! he comes to bed to me, oh! every night
He calls me his jewel and his sweet heart's delight
But the love that hangs on him is like the leaves on the trees
But I'm ruined, I'm ruined forever, cried she

Oh! he brings me fine ribbons all decored with gold
And many a fine story to me he has told
But I would give them all for the sake of a man
But I'm ruined, I'm ruined, do all that I can

My father he gave me eight acres of ground
My mother she gave me eight hundred pounds
But I will give them all for the sake of a man
I'm ruined, I'm ruined, do all that I can

So it's come all you young maidens take warning by me
Never marry and old man in any degree
You marry a young man that will make you his wife
And then you'll live happy all the days of your life

Source: 'The Wanton Seed' Ed Frank Purslow, EFDS Publications Ltd 1968, p 103. Attribution: 'Tune/Text: Gardiner: H.1341. Frank Phillips, Stoney Cross, Hants, April 1909'.

--Stewie.