SEVEN YEARS WITH THE WRONG WOMAN
(Bob Miller)
As recorded by:
Billy Cotton & His Band
V. Alan Breeze
Recorded 9th June 1933
Also recorded by:
Eddy Arnold
Cliff Carlisle
Ray Noble, V. Al Bowlly
Something Smith & the Redheads
Dick Thomas
Seven years with the wrong woman
Will wreck most any good man
Seven years with the wrong woman
It's the same in the mountain or dale
She'll stay awake all night
Trying to start a fight
Then have you thrown into jail
(Musical Break)
Seven years with the wrong woman
Is more than 'arf too bad, baby
Seven years with the wrong woman
Will drive most any man mad, poo-poo-pe-doo
When you've married the wrong woman, you know,
There's only on thing you can do
Dig yourself a hole, and crawl in that hole
Then pull the ground over you, like.
Seven years with the wrong woman
Put me in this dirty jail
And she's got all my money
And laughs 'cos I can't get bail
In that final day of judgement
When the good Gabriel starts in to blow
If I see her face in that Heavenly place
I'll ask to be sent down below.
Transcribed from John Wright's 78 RPM Record Collection
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As recorded by Eddie Arnold:
Seven years with the wrong woman
Is more than a man can stand,
Seven years with the wrong woman
Will wreck 'most any good man
Seven years with the wrong woman
It's the same in the mountain or dale,
She'll stay awake all night, tryin' to start a fight
Then have you thrown into jail.
Seven years with the wrong woman
Is punishment that is bad,
Seven years with the wrong woman
Will drive 'most any man mad.
When you've married the wrong woman
There is only one thing you can do;
Dig yourself a hole, then crawl in that hole
And pull the ground over you.
(Musical Break)
Listen boys, if you're thinking of marriage
Take warning to what I tell,
Don't you marry the wrong woman
It's worse than living in hell.
Seven years with the wrong woman
It'll age you and turn your hair grey
They say love is blind, but search till you find
A face you can stand every day.
(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - February 2013)
