The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #168551   Message #4071766
Posted By: Joe Offer
13-Sep-20 - 07:23 PM
Thread Name: Origins:Bad Husband's Folly, or Poverty Made Known
Subject: ADD: Bad Husband's Folly
Here are the lyrics Riggy posted.

BAD HUSBAND'S FOLLY

To all good fellows now I mean to sing a song
And I have wrought my own decay, and have done myself great wrong
In following the ale-house I have spent away my store
Bad company did me undo, but I’ll do so no more

CHORUS
But I’ll do so no more
Bad company did me undo, but I’ll do so no more
I’ll do so no more


I sold and mortgaged all that, and spent it in strong beer
My wife and friends could not rule me, until I did wax poor
Bad company did me undo, but I’ll do so no more

Then I fell sick upon the same and lay three months and more
But never an ale-wife in the town would come within my door
But my poor wife was my best friend and stuck to me therefore
Bad company did me undo, but I’ll do so no more

My wife she sold her petticoat and pawned her wedding ring
To relieve me in my misery in any kind of thing
Oh was I not a woeful man to waste and spend my store
Bad company did me undo, but I’ll do so no more

As soon as I get strength again I’ll fall to work apace
To maintain my wife and children for my needs they are base
I see who is a man’s best friend if he be sick or poor
Bad company did me undo, but I’ll do so no more