[G]It's just a year ago today I (C) married Mary (G) Ann
And (C) here I am at (G) 35 an (D) auld and feeble (G) man.
Sure
she makes me life a misery me (C) nerves are gone to (G) bits,
And I'm (C) going round in (G) circles like a (D) dog that
has the (G) fits
For she (C) nags me in the (G) morning, she (C) nags me all the (G) day,
She (C) criticizes (G) all I do and (D)
everything I (G) say,
The (C) other night we (G) had a fight she (C )hit me with the (G) pan
Oh the (C) curse o’
Blazes (G) on the day I (D) married Mary (G) Ann
She wakes me in the morning and she (C) says get out of (G) bed,
You (C) lazy ugly (G) so and so you (D) look
like something (G) dead
Get out of bed and go to work and (C) get a job some-(G)-how,
For I (C) never had to (G) work
before and (D) I'm not starting (G) now.
I (C) draw the home as-(G)-sistance and al-(C)-though the times are (G) dear
It (C) keeps me in to-(G)-bacco and
a (D) few old pints of (G) beer
And (C) if Mary Ann wants (G) money to (C) buy herself a (G) dress,
She (C) can bloody
well go (G) out and start to (D) work for it her-(G)-self.
G – G – C - G
And just to aggravate her sure I (C) stay in bed all (G) day
I (C) rise up in the (G) evening time to (D) make meself
some (G) tae,
And then I'll wander down the town to (C) get meself a (G) jar,
And it's (C) often after (G) closing time
be-(D)-fore I leave the (G) bar.
And (C) when I stagger (G) home again she's (C) waiting for me (G) there,
With (C) fire raging (G) in her eyes
and (D) curlers in her (G) hair,
And (C) in her hand a (G) poker sure it (C) would frighten any (G) man
Oh the (C) greatest
curse that (G) ever lived was (D) that auld Mary (G) Ann.
She's over 6 foot tall me boys and her (D) weight is 20 (G) stone,
And(C) when we have a (G) fight sure I can
(D) barely hold me (G) own,
She's as strong as any black smith sure she (D) should have been a (G) man
For you'd (C)
need police pro-(G)-tection for to (D) live with Mary (G) Ann
She (C) says I'm good for (G) nothing either (C) in or out of (G) bed,
She (C) says I'm not a (G) man at all and
(D) wishes I was (G) dead,
She (C) tells me I'm a (G) drunken scut, I (C) think I'll have to (G) leave.
Sure (C) if
this goes on (G) much longer sure (D) I'll soon be in my (G) grave.
I'll just head off to London boys and (C) leave her to her-(G)-self,
It (C) means I'll have to (G) leave me home
but (D) sure that can't be (G) helped,
For you might as well be living with the (C) devil and his (G) clan
As to (C)
try and share the (G) same abode with (D) that auld Mary (G) Ann.
And (C) now me boys take (G) warning stay (C) single when you (G) may
For (C) if you wed you'll (G) be a slave
un-(D)-til your dying (G) day,
That (C) angle with the (G) lovely face that (C) smiles so warm and (G) grand,
Sure she’s(C)
probably a (G) devil too like (D) my auld Mary (G) Ann.
Oh, she’s (C) probably a (G) devil too like (D) my auld
Mary (G) Ann.
