Comforts of Marriage

Come all you young men that are married;
And listen awhile until me
I will sing you a comical ditty.
That?s not a bit out of the way
That day that you go to be married,
Beware or you?ll meet with bad bread,
And you?ll run yourself into a hobble,
You ne?er will get shut off till dead
And its not from marriage refrain,
Were it for your own sakes do.
As you find it no easy matter
When once your engaged to go thro?
Poor Paddy was scarce ten month married,
Before he began to repent
He said to his own dearest Nancy,
How shall we make up the rent
She sleeps with her toes in the ashes
Her hands places under her chin
If anyone asks her what ails her
She will rise and say it is the wind
As for the well fed farmers daughter.
Who comes is such pomp to the town
Dressed up in her nice feather?d velvets
Their shawls and short bodied gowns
Although they have a good fortune
It is terribly mi?ed with a curse
For instead of the world getting better
Its ever day getting worse
If you go to a fair or a market
You can?t tell the rich from the poor
You?d think by their nice Spanish s??ppers.
They had slept on a nice carpet floor
Perhaps ?twas a sooty old cabin,
They lived in for most of their lives
A man sure may pray for his coffin:
That gets such a maid for his wife,
Poor Barney he longs to be married
Now married he is to the bone,
He said that man was bewitched
Who could die any longer alone
He cried I will marry for beauty,
For riches I don?t care a pin,
Poll she made such poor porridge,
His face it did grow wonderful thin
I pray brother Sarny take care
You see what happened poor Pat
If you marry a wife she?ll undo you
In supporting her tea and her plate
For your mind will be always uneasy
You portion is hardship and cold
This will be your wedlock engagement
Believe me I?ll tell you the truth
So now for to make a conclusion
Believe me I?ll tell you the truth
They toss themselves out in full fashion
Their knavery for to concede
But when that marriage is over
Their tongues they let loose without fail,