《A Stitch in Time》歌词

[00:00:00] A Stitch in Time - Martin Carthy

[00:00:05] Oh there was a woman and she lived on her own

[00:00:08] She slaved on her own and she skivvied on her own

[00:00:11] She'd two little girls and two little boys

[00:00:14] And she lived all alone with her husband

[00:00:18] For her husband he was a hunk of a man

[00:00:21] A chunk of a man and a drunk of a man

[00:00:24] He was a hunk of a drunk and skunk of a man

[00:00:27] Such a boozing bruising husband

[00:00:31] For he would come home drunk each night

[00:00:33] He thrashed her black and he thrashed her white

[00:00:36] He thrashed her too within an inch of her life

[00:00:40] Then he slept like a log did her husband

[00:00:43] One night she gathered her tears all round her shame

[00:00:47] She thought of the bruising and cried with the pain

[00:00:50] Oh you'll not do that ever again

[00:00:53] I won't live with a drunken husband

[00:00:57] But as he lay and snored in bed

[00:01:00] A strange old thought came into her head

[00:01:03] She went for the needle went for the thread

[00:01:06] And went straight in to her sleeping husband

[00:01:09] And she started to stitch with a girlish thrill

[00:01:12] With a woman's heart and a seamstress' skill

[00:01:15] She bibbed and tucked with an iron will

[00:01:19] All around her sleeping husband

[00:01:22] Oh the top sheet the bottom sheet too

[00:01:25] The blanket stitched to the mattress through

[00:01:28] She stitched and stitched for the whole night through

[00:01:31] Then she waited till the dawn on her husband

[00:01:35] And when her husband awoke with a pain in his head

[00:01:38] He found that he could not move in bed

[00:01:41] Sweet Christ I've lost the use of me legs

[00:01:45] But this wife just smiled at her husband

[00:01:48] For in her hand she held the frying pan

[00:01:51] With a flutter in her heart she given him a lam

[00:01:54] He could not move but he cried God damn

[00:01:57] Don't you swear she cries to her husband

[00:02:01] And then she thrashed him black she thrashed him blue

[00:02:04] With the frying pan and the colander too

[00:02:07] With the rolling pin just a stroke or two

[00:02:10] Such a battered and bleeding husband

[00:02:14] And she says

[00:02:15] If you ever come home drunk any more

[00:02:17] I'll stitch you in I'll thrash you more

[00:02:20] Then I'll pack my bag and I'll be out the door

[00:02:24] I'll not live with a drunken husband

[00:02:27] Oh isn't it true what small can do

[00:02:30] With a thread and a thought and a stitch or two

[00:02:33] He's wiped his slate and his boozing's through

[00:02:37] It's goodbye to a drunken husband