MARRIED MAN BLUES
(Ernest Tubb)

Ernest Tubb - 1936


Listen all you rounder’s take a tip from me
Listen all you rounder’s take a tip from me
Don’t you ever marry if you love your liberty

Don’t do it boy

A woman will tell you, you can do just as you please
A woman will tell you, you can do just as you please
But when she gets you she’ll find an ace up her sleeve

Once I had lots of money and I rattled it all the time
I had lots of money and I rattled it all the time
But now all I hear rattlin’ is this ball and chain of mine

When I was a singer I had girls by the score
When I was a singer I had girls by the score
But now I’m married and they don’t love me no more

My Mama says marry my Papa says use your head
Mama told me to marry my Papa says use your head
Because being married is just like being dead

Pa you knew your stuff


(Contributed by lylemalone - May 2005)