Stitch in Time

from A Family Odyssey by McDonnell Trio

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lyrics

Stitch in time

Oh there was a woman who lived on her own
She slaved on her own and she skivvied on her own
She had two little girls and two little boys
And she lived all alone with her husband

Her husband he was a hunk of a man
A chunk of a man and a drunk of a man
He was a hunk and a drunk and a skunk of a man
Such a boozing abusing husband

For he would come home drunk each night
He thrashed her blue and he thrashed her white
He thrashed her to it in an inch of her life
Then he slept like a log did her husband

One night she gathered her tears and her shame
She cried with the bruising and she cried with the pain
Oh you'll not do that ever again
I won't live with a drunken husband

And as she lay awake in the bed
A funny old thought came into her head
She went for the needle and she went for the thread
Then went straight to her sleeping husband

And she started to stitch with a girlish thrill
With a woman's heart and a seemstress' skill
She bibbed and tucked with an iron will
All around her sleeping husband

The top sheet and the bottom sheet too
The blanket stitched to the mattress through
she stitched and stitched the whole night through
Then she waited for the dawn and her husband

Well her husband woke with a pain in his head
And He found that he could not move in the bed
Sweet Christ I've lost the use of me legs
But this wife just smiled at her husband

For in her hand she held a frying pan
With a flutter in her heart she's a givin' him a lamb
He could not move but he cried goddamn
Don't you swear she cried to her husband

Then she thrashed him white and she thrashed him blue
With the frying pan and the collander too
With a rolling pin just a stroke or two
Such a bruised and battered husband

She says if ever you come home drunk anymore
I'll stitch you in and I'll thrash you more
I'll pack my bags and I'll be out the door
I'll not live with a drunken husband

So isn't it true what small can do?
With a thought and a thread and a stitch or two
He's cleaned his slate and his boozing's through
It's goodbye to a drunken husband

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from A Family Odyssey, released April 12, 2023
Written by Mike Waterson
SImon McDonnell: vocals

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La légende des McDonnell commence avec Michael, le père, dans le pub familial du comté de Kilkenny. Élevé à la musique traditionnelle irlandaise, il vogue vers la France et y nourrit deux fils, Simon et Kevin, d’un mélange de ballades folk et de bluegrass. Au son du banjo, de la mandoline, de la guitare, de l’accordéon et du bodhran, cette trinité musicale révèle un véritable gospel irlandais... ... more

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