Seven Sociable Songs from the Repertoire of John Goss

Have I a wife? Bedam I have!
But we was badly mated:
I hit her a great clout one night,
And now we’re separated.

And mornin’s going to my work
I meets her on the quay:
“Goog mornin’ to ye, ma’am,” says I:
“To hell with ye,” says she.

Text Authorship:

• by Leonard Alfred George Strong (1896 - 1958), "Brewer's Man", appears in Dublin Days, first published 1921

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