Great Big Sea – Scolding Wife (Guitar)
Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E)
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar
Ukulele
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
from "Sea of No Cares" (2002)
Trad, arr. Great Big Sea (learnt from Darrell's cousin
Gabe Houlihan of Flat Rock,IIRC)
Tune low E string down to D.
(Alan)
D Well I came into a scolding wife a few short years ago, A And ever since I lead a life of misery and woe, G A My wife she is a tyrant, around the room and in D Ah she'd sell me to the devil for a glass or two of gin.
(Bob)
D Sure I'll get up and go to work as mild as any man, A and she'll get up an' dress herself and go and have her dram, G A and if I chance to say a word it's well I know my doom, D she'll follow me with the firing shovel up and down the room.
[chorus]
D G D G D And if the devil'd take her, i'd thank him for his pain, G D A Asus4 I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again G D G D And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, D G A D Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again.
(Darrell/Murray)
D When I get up at breakfast time she'll tap me on the head, A when I come home at Dinnertime I'll find her drunk in bed, G A when I come home at suppertime with patience I must stop, D Cause she drinks what's in the teapot and I must drink the slops.
[chorus]
D G D G D And if the devil'd take her, i'd thank him for his pain, G D A Asus4 I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again G D G D And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, D G A D Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again.
(Séan)
D Well once I asked me scolding wife If I could go to bed, A She scarce gave me an hour upon the pillow to lay me head, G A when like a roarin' lion she come busting down the door, D she caught me by the middle and threw me naked on the floor.
[chorus]
D G D G D And if the devil'd take her, i'd thank him for his pain, G D A Asus4 I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again G D G D And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, D G A D Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again.
"Cook in the Galley Jig":
D A G A D A G A D X2
(All)
D Now me and my companions go to a public place, A She'll search around the neigbourhood until she finds my face. G A she'll hoist me up in ridicule before the company, D saying "pettycoats is your master and forever more shall be!"
[chorus]
D G D G D And if the devil'd take her, i'd thank him for his pain, G D A Asus4 I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again G D G D And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, D G A D Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again. D G D G D And if the devil'd take her, i'd thank him for his pain, G D A Asus4 I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again G D G D And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, D G A D Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again.
N.C.
And if the devil'd take her, i'd thank him for his pain,
N.C.
I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again
N.C.
And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain,
N.C.
Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again...
The verses of this song are a drone kept by a squeezebox and bodhran.
Chords are those implied.The acoustic guitar comes in for the choruses,
actually entering with the downbeat on "and..".