Cock Pecked Wife, The

DESCRIPTION: "I am a wed woman, an' nobody con tell, What troubles aw go through each week, but myself." Her husband is rarely around; he "goes out ev're neet." They have three children. He snores -- when he's around. She wishes for the better days before she married.
AUTHOR: Words: Thomas Brierley (source: Brierley)
EARLIEST DATE: 1894 (The Countryfied Pieces of Thomas Brierley)
KEYWORDS: marriage hardtimes children husband
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Harding-FolkSongsOfLancashire, pp. 26-27, "The Cock Pecked Wife" (1 text, 1 modern tune)
ADDITIONAL: Thomas Brierley, _The Countryfied Pieces of Thomas Brierley_, W. E. Clegg (for the author), 1894 (available on Google Books), pp. 131-132, "The Cock Pecked Wife" (1 text)
File: HFSL026

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