《Housewife’s Lament》歌词

歌曲： Housewife’s Lament

所属专辑：The Green Leaves of Summer: Acoustic Folk Songs

歌手： Midday Sun

时长： 02:46

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Housewife's Lament - Audio Idols (音频偶像)[00:00:00]

One day I was walking I heard a complaining[00:00:08]

And saw an old woman the picture of gloom[00:00:12]

She gazed at the mud on her doorstep ('twas raining)[00:00:16]

And this was her song as she wielded her broom[00:00:19]

Life is a trial and love is a trouble[00:00:25]

Beauty will fade and riches will flee[00:00:29]

Pleasures they dwindle and prices they double[00:00:33]

And nothing is as I would wish it to be[00:00:36]

It's sweeping at six and it's dusting at seven[00:00:41]

It's victuals at eight and it's dishes at nine[00:00:45]

It's potting and panning form ten to eleven[00:00:49]

We scarce break our fast till we plan how to dine[00:00:53]

With grease and with grime from corner to center[00:00:57]

Forever at war and forever alert[00:01:01]

No rest for a day lest the enemy enter[00:01:04]

I spend my whole life in struggle with dirt[00:01:08]

Life is a trial and love is a trouble[00:01:13]

Beauty will fade and riches will flee[00:01:17]

Pleasures they dwindle and prices they double[00:01:21]

And nothing is as I would wish it to be [00:01:25]

Last night in my dreams I was stationed forever[00:01:46]

On a far little rock in the midst of the sea[00:01:50]

My one chance of life was a ceaseless endeavor[00:01:55]

To sweep off the waves as they swept over me[00:01:59]

Alas Twas no dream; ahead I behold it[00:02:03]

I see I am helpless my fate to avert[00:02:07]

She lay down her broom her apron she folded[00:02:11]

She lay down and died and was buried in dirt [00:02:15]

Life is a trial and love is a trouble[00:02:21]

Beauty will fade and riches will flee[00:02:24]

Pleasures they dwindle and prices they double[00:02:29]

And nothing is as I would wish it to be[00:02:33]