MAT-RI-MONY
From the Broadway revue "Mrs. Wilson, That's All" (1907)
(William J. McKenna)

May Irwin - 1907


Life ain't worth livin' said Lucy McTate
You can see trouble all over my face
One year ago all this sorrow began
When I got married to a lazy man

Every morning about half-past-six
My husband wakes me with a few hard kicks
I have to make the fire or I don't get fed
While he eats his breakfast as he lays in bed

M-a-t, r-i, m-o-n-y
That's a high-tone name for trouble
You pronounce it with a sigh
What causes all the mis'ry in this land
If you wanta find out, ask any married man
And he'll say "M-a-t, r-i, m-o-n-y"

Now friends I'll give you some real good advice
This matrimony may be very nice
Folks all say marriage is simply sublime
But I'll take single life most ev'ry time

Once I was positively single and it
Now I am negatively douvble-nix
Within my flat I wore the cleanest shorts an' that
Until I drew a king that beat the whole blamed pack

M-a-t, r-i, m-o-n-y
That's a high-tone name for trouble
You pronounce it with a sigh
What causes all the mis'ry in this land
If you wanta find out, ask any married man
And he'll say "M-a-t, r-i, m-o-n-y"


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - September 2005)