Great Big Sea – Scolding Wife (Ukulele)
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Versions
(2)
Guitar
Ukulele
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Chords
from "Sea of No Cares" (2002)
Trad, arr. Great Big Sea
[Verse 1]
C F G C Well I came into a scolding wife a few short years ago F C G And ever since I lead a life of misery and woe F C G My wife she is a tyrant, around the room and in C F G C Ah she'd sell me to the devil for a glass or two of gin
[Verse 2]
C F G C Sure I'll get up and go to work as mild as any man F C G and she'll get up an' dress herself and go and have her dram F C G and if I chance to say a word it's well I know my doom C F G C she'll follow me with the fire shovel up and down the room
[Chorus]
C F C F C And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, F C G Gsus4 I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again F C F C And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, C F G C Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again
[Verse 3]
C F G C When I get up at breakfast time she taps me on the head F C G when I come home at dinnertime I'll find her drunk in bed F C G when I come home at suppertime with patience I must stop C F G C Cause she drinks what's in the teapot and I must drink the slops
[Chorus]
C F C F C And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, F C G Gsus4 I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again F C F C And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, C F G C Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again
[Verse 4]
C F G C Well once I asked me scolding wife if I could go to bed F C G She scarce gave me an hour upon the pillow to lay me head F C G when like a roarin' lion she come busting down the door C F G C she caught me by the middle and threw me naked on the floor
[Chorus]
C F C F C And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, F C G Gsus4 I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again F C F C And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, C F G C Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again
[Break]
C G F G C G F G C
C G F G C G F G C
[Verse 5]
C F G C Now me and my companions go to a public place F C G She'll search around the neigbourhood until she finds my face F C G She'll hoist me up in ridicule before the company, C F G C Saying "petticoats is your master and forever more shall be!"
[Chorus]
C F C F C And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, F C G Gsus4 I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again F C F C And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, C F G C Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again
[Chorus]
C F C F C And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, F C G Gsus4 I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again F C F C And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain, C F G C Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again
[Outro]
* * * * *
And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain,
* * * *
I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again
* * * *
And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain,
* * * *
Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again
* * * * *
And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain,
* * * *
I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again
* * * *
And if the devil'd take her, I'd thank him for his pain,
* * * *
Oh, I swear to god I'll hang meself if I get married again
The verses of this song are a drone kept by
an accordion and bodhran. Chords are those implied.
The acoustic guitar comes in for the choruses,
actually entering with a downbeat on "and..".