You married men you know

You married men you know

Roud number 2399

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)

Image: "You married men you know" collected from Shadrack "Shepherd" Hayden, Bampton, 1909. Cecil Sharp Folk Tunes p.2332