Scolding Wife Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Well I cDame into a scolding wife a fewG short yeAars aDgo

And evGer since i leDad a life of misAery and woe

My wGife she is a tyDrant, aroAund the room and in

Ah she'd selDl me to the devGil for a gAlass or two of Dgin

Sure I'll get up and go to work as mild as any man

and she'll get up an' dress herself and go and have her dram

and if i chance to say a word it's well i know my doom

she'll follow me with the fire shovel up and down the room

Chorus

DAnd iGf the devil'd takDe her, i'd thGank him for his pDain,

I swGear to god I'll hangD meself if I getA married agaAsus4in

And iGf the devil'd takeD her, I'd thaGnk him for his pDain,

Oh, I swDear to god I'll haGng meself if Ai get married agaDin

When I get up at breakfast time she taps me on the head

when I come home at Dinnertime I'll find her drunk in bed

when I come home at suppertime with patience I must stop

Cause she drinks what's in the teapot and I must drink the slops

Chorus

Well once I asked me scolding wife If i could go to bed

She scarce gave me an hour upon the pillow to lay me head

when like a roarin' lion she come busting down the door

she caught me by the middle and threw me naked on the floor

Chorus

Break

D A G A D A G A D X2

Now me and my companions go to a public place

She'll search around the neigbourhood until she finds my face

she'll hoist me up in ridicule before the company,

saying "pettycoats is your master and forever more shall be!"

CHORUS X4, Last two a capella

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..".