For better or worse here they are!

I MARRIED A WOMAN I THOUGHT WAS RICH (YOU’RE A LUCKY MAN JOHN)
COL 1/5,George Downs, Norfolk, 5th July 1942.
With additions from ‘Mackney’s 50 popular Songs for banjo’, page 36. (Nos 6602-3 Musical Bouquet 1881 John Read).


You'd better be born lucky than rich,
Is a saying you'll hear to this day.
But if I had the choice of the two,
I know which I should have I really must say say.
I'm not very lucky,
Would like to be rich,
But of course I know I never can,
Misfortune you see has a strong hold on me,
Though they call me a fortunate man.

When ever friends meet me they say...

Chorus after every verse:
You are a lucky fellow John
And that you can't deny
I don't believe you could do wrong
If you were to try
Fortune seemed to favour you
Do wrong you never can
While some go wrong you get on,
You are a lucky man.

I married a woman whom I thought was rich
And very soon after I found
She'd spent all the money invested in bonds
And my prospects all come to the ground
She'd also six children whom I had to keep
As we walked out the other day
Some fellow who knew me
Patted me on the back
And these words unto me he did say

One evening as I went home at ten,
And I'd forgotten the key,
I gave a rat-tat and my wife said 'Who's that?'
I answered 'My dear only me'
She opened the window I took off my hat,
Thought of catching the key but instead,
A flowerpot fell from the top window sill,
And smashed on the top of my head.

And that moment my neighbour looking out of his window said...



One night as I stood in the Old Robin Hood
Public house having some beer,
Some fellow came in for two of cold gin,
And with me he would interfere,
He tried all his might to induce me to fight,
I said 'Sir to fight I'm not bound.'
He called me a coward, I couldn't stand that ,
I said 'Sir I will have a round!'

And after being knocked all over the shop they said...