《A Stitch in Time》歌词

歌曲： A Stitch in Time

所属专辑：Essential

歌手： Martin Carthy

时长： 02:49

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A Stitch in Time - Martin Carthy[00:00:00]

Oh there was a woman and she lived on her own[00:00:05]

She slaved on her own and she skivvied on her own[00:00:08]

She'd two little girls and two little boys[00:00:11]

And she lived all alone with her husband[00:00:14]

For her husband he was a hunk of a man[00:00:18]

A chunk of a man and a drunk of a man[00:00:21]

He was a hunk of a drunk and skunk of a man[00:00:24]

Such a boozing bruising husband[00:00:27]

For he would come home drunk each night[00:00:31]

He thrashed her black and he thrashed her white[00:00:33]

He thrashed her too within an inch of her life[00:00:36]

Then he slept like a log did her husband[00:00:40]

One night she gathered her tears all round her shame[00:00:43]

She thought of the bruising and cried with the pain[00:00:47]

Oh you'll not do that ever again[00:00:50]

I won't live with a drunken husband[00:00:53]

But as he lay and snored in bed[00:00:57]

A strange old thought came into her head[00:01:00]

She went for the needle went for the thread[00:01:03]

And went straight in to her sleeping husband[00:01:06]

And she started to stitch with a girlish thrill[00:01:09]

With a woman's heart and a seamstress' skill[00:01:12]

She bibbed and tucked with an iron will[00:01:15]

All around her sleeping husband[00:01:19]

Oh the top sheet the bottom sheet too[00:01:22]

The blanket stitched to the mattress through[00:01:25]

She stitched and stitched for the whole night through[00:01:28]

Then she waited till the dawn on her husband[00:01:31]

And when her husband awoke with a pain in his head[00:01:35]

He found that he could not move in bed[00:01:38]

Sweet Christ I've lost the use of me legs[00:01:41]

But this wife just smiled at her husband[00:01:45]

For in her hand she held the frying pan[00:01:48]

With a flutter in her heart she given him a lam[00:01:51]

He could not move but he cried God damn[00:01:54]

Don't you swear she cries to her husband[00:01:57]

And then she thrashed him black she thrashed him blue[00:02:01]

With the frying pan and the colander too[00:02:04]

With the rolling pin just a stroke or two[00:02:07]

Such a battered and bleeding husband[00:02:10]

And she says[00:02:14]

If you ever come home drunk any more[00:02:15]

I'll stitch you in I'll thrash you more[00:02:17]

Then I'll pack my bag and I'll be out the door[00:02:20]

I'll not live with a drunken husband[00:02:24]

Oh isn't it true what small can do[00:02:27]

With a thread and a thought and a stitch or two[00:02:30]

He's wiped his slate and his boozing's through[00:02:33]

It's goodbye to a drunken husband[00:02:37]