The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #129897   Message #2918795
Posted By: Melissa
01-Jun-10 - 11:01 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Poor Old Woman/Housewife's Lament
Subject: Lyr Add: HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT (DT Version - excerpt)
They look alike to me?!
Please teach me to see the difference..?

HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT (DT Version-excerpt)

One day I was walking, I heard a complaining
And saw an old woman the picture of gloom
She gazed at the mud on her doorstep ('twas raining)
And this was her song as she wielded her broom

C C7 E E7 / F D7 G G7 / C - F C / G - G7 C

Life is a trial and love is a trouble
Beauty will fade and riches will flee
Pleasures they dwindle and prices they double
And nothing is as I would wish it to be.

There's too much of worriment goes to a bonnet
There's too much of ironing goes to a shirt
There's nothing that pays for the time you waste on it
There's nothing that lasts us but trouble and dirt.

***

Alas! Twas no dream; ahead I behold it
I see I am helpless my fate to avert
She lay down her broom, her apron she folded
She lay down and died and was buried in dirt.^^^