As the Dew Flies- Gallagher (NS) pre1950 Creighton; Bronson 24
[My title, replacing the generic, Wife Wrapt.]
[As the Dew Flies] "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" Creighton and Senior, 1950, p 94. Sung by Mrs. Edward Gallagher, Chebucto Head, N.S.
1. I married a wife I brought her home
Gently Willie fair rosamaree
I fear I married a little too soon,
As the dew flies over the mulberry tree.
2 She will not card, she will not spin,
For fear of soiling a gay gold ring.
3. Into the kitchen she won't so
For fear of soiling a high helled shoe.
4. One day Willie came home from the plough.
He said, "Dear wife is the dinner ready now?"
5. She called him a saucy whelp,
"If you want your dinner go get it yourself."
6. Willie he returned to his plough,
He saw a fat sheep standing by.
7 He cut her throat and he plucked her skin
And with two sticks he carried it in.
8. He spread the sheepskin on her back
And he made the sticks go whackety whack.
9. "Oh! dear Willie don't bear me so,
I'll be your boy and drive your plough.
10. "I want none of your boyish help
And I will drive my plough yourself."
11. "I have brothers one, two, three,
If they were here you wouldn't beat me."
12. "I don't care for your brothers or any of your kin
And I will tan my own sheepskin."
"The 2nd and 4th lines of the 1st stanza are the chorus and are sung with every verse." [Creighton's note.]