Текст песни A Stitch in Time - Martin Carthy
Oh
there
was
a
woman
and
she
lived
on
her
own
She
slaved
on
her
own
and
she
skivvied
on
her
own
She′d
two
little
girls
and
two
little
boys
And
she
lived
all
alone
with
her
husband
For
her
husband
he
was
a
hunk
of
a
man
A
chunk
of
a
man
and
a
drunk
of
a
man
He
was
a
hunk
of
a
drunk
and
skunk
of
a
man
Such
a
boozing
bruising
husband
For
he
would
come
home
drunk
each
night
He
thrashed
her
black
and
he
thrashed
her
white
He
thrashed
her
too
within
an
inch
of
her
life
Then
he
slept
like
a
log,
did
her
husband
One
night
she
gathered
her
tears
all
round
her
shame
She
thought
of
the
bruising
and
cried
with
the
pain
"Oh
you'll
not
do
that
ever
again
I
won′t
live
with
a
drunken
husband."
Her
husband
came
home
drunk
each
night
And
he
thrashed
her
black
and
he
thrashed
her
white
He
thrashed
her
too
within
an
inch
of
her
life
And
then
he
slept
like
a
log,
did
her
husband
But
as
he
lay
and
snored
in
bed
A
strange
old
thought
came
into
her
head
She
went
for
the
needle,
went
for
the
thread
And
went
straight
in
to
her
sleeping
husband
And
she
started
to
stitch
with
a
girlish
thrill
With
a
woman's
heart
and
a
seamstress'
skill
She
bibbed
and
tucked
with
an
iron
will
All
around
her
sleeping
husband
Oh
the
top
sheet,
the
bottom
sheet
too
The
blanket
stitched
to
the
mattress
through
She
stitched
and
stitched
for
the
whole
night
through
Then
she
waited
till
dawn
on
her
husband
And
when
her
husband
awoke
with
a
pain
in
his
head
He
found
that
he
could
not
move
in
bed
"Sweet
Christ,
I′ve
lost
the
use
of
me
legs!"
But
this
wife
just
smiled
at
her
husband
For
in
her
hand
she
held
the
frying
pan
With
a
flutter
in
her
heart
she
given
him
a
lam
He
could
not
move
but
he
cried:
"God
damn!"
"Don′t
you
swear,"
she
cries
to
her
husband
And
then
she
thrashed
him
black,
she
thrashed
him
blue
With
the
frying
pan
and
the
colander
too
With
the
rolling
pin,
just
a
stroke
or
two
Such
a
battered
and
bleeding
husband
And
she
says,
"If
you
ever
come
home
drunk
any
more
I'll
stitch
you
in,
I′ll
thrash
you
more
Then
I'll
pack
my
bag
and
I′ll
be
out
the
door
I'll
not
live
with
a
drunken
husband!"
Oh
isn′t
it
true
what
small
can
do
With
a
thread
and
a
thought
and
a
stitch
or
two
He's
wiped
his
slate
and
his
boozing's
through
It′s
goodbye
to
a
drunken
husband
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