A Stitch In Time - Martin Carthy Chords
Chords: A, Dm, F, Gm, Am, G, D
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Genre: folk, traditional, acoustic
A STITCH IN TIME
[Verse]
Dm
Oh there was a woman and she lived on her own
Dm
She slaved on her own and she skivvied on her own
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She'd two little girls and two little boys
Am Gm Dm
And she lived all alone with her husband
Dm
For her husband he was a hunk of a man
Dm
A chunk of a man and a drunk of a man
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He was a hunk of a drunk and skunk of a man
Am Gm Dm
Such a boozing bruising husband
Dm
For he would come home drunk each night
Am Dm
He thrashed her black and he thrashed her white
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He thrashed her too within an inch of her life
Am Gm Dm
Then he slept like a log did her husband
Dm
One night she gathered her tears all round her shame
Dm
She thought of the bruising and cried with the pain
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Oh you'll not do that ever again
Am Gm Dm
I won't live with a drunken husband
Dm
But as he lay and snored in bed
Dm
A strange old thought came into her head
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She went for the needle, went for the thread
Am Gm Dm
And went straight in to her sleeping husband
Dm
And she started to stitch with a girlish thrill
Dm
With a woman's heart and a seamstress' skill
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She bibbed and tucked with an iron will
Am Dm
All around her sleeping husband
Dm
Oh the top sheet, the bottom sheet too
Dm
The blanket stitched to the mattress through
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She stitched and stitched for the whole night through
Am Gm Dm
And then she waited the dawn and her husband
Dm
And when her husband awoke with a pain in his head
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He found that he could not move in bed
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Sweet Christ, I've lost the use of my legs
Am Gm Dm
But this wife just smiled at her husband
Dm
For in her hand she held the frying pan
Dm
With a flutter in her heart she given him a lam
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He could not move and he cried, God damn
Am Dm
Don't you swear, she cries to her husband
Dm
Then she thrashed him black, she thrashed him blue
Dm
With the frying pan and the colander too
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