
Date of issue: 10.08.2017
Record label: Acony
Song language: English
Yup |
There was an old man who lived over the hill |
If he ain’t dead yet he’s a living there still |
Yup, yup |
Oh well, the devil come up to him one day |
Said one of your family I’m gonna take away |
Yup, yup |
Well please don’t take my eldest son |
There’s work on the farm that’s got to be done |
Yup, yup |
Well it’s-a not your eldest son I crave |
It’s your stol’den wife I’m gonna take her away |
Yup, yup |
Now the old man jumped up with a start |
Saying you can take her with all of my heart |
Yup, yup |
So the devil picked her up upon his back |
He looked like an eagle stretched on a rack |
Yup, yup |
And he carried her on 'bout a mile down the road |
Saying oh woman, you’re a hell of a load |
Yup, yup |
And he carried her down to the gates of Hell |
Saying «Poke up the fire, we’ll scorch her well!» |
Yup, yup |
There were two little devils with a ball and chain |
Up with her foot, she kicked out their brains |
Yup, yup |
And nine little devils went climbing up the walls |
Saying take her back, daddy, she’ll murder us all |
Yup, yup |
I woke up the next morning, I peeked out of the crack |
I see the old devil just a-dragging her back |
Yup, yup |
Saying here’s your wife both sound and well |
If I kept her there longer she’d’ve torn up hell |
Yup, yup |
Well it only goes to show what a woman can do |
She can whoop up the devil and her husband too |
Yup, yup |
Shows one advantage women have over man |
They can go down to hell and come back again |
Yup, yup |
Yup, yup |
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