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You married men you know
collected from Shepherd Hayden by Cecil Sharp, Bampton, Oxfordshire, 31st August 1909.
Sharp gave this song the title You married men you know, although Hayden presumably referred to it as You bachelors you know.
1. You bachelors you know To the tavern let us go We’ll enjoy both our bottle and our wine So his wife she did come in And thus she did begin Crying: husband it is time to come home, to come home Crying husband it is time to come home.
2. Come in and sit you down My joy and heart’s delight And our reckoning I will call and I will pay Fill up another quart, Let it be of the same sort And what will you drink madam I pray.
3. And if she calls for any more The bottles I will break And the glasses I will dash all on the floor What could you fellows think To entice him so to drink He been rambling all this night with his whore.
4. And a-coming home at last He met with a bonny lass And she was so frolicksome and free He took her in his arms And he’s rifled all her charms Saying: a bachelor’s life now for me.
(Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Words pp.2122-2123 / Folk Tunes p.2332)