a stitch in time
Singer:christy moore
there was a woman and she lived on her own
slaved on her own and she skivvied on her own
she'd two little boys and two little girls
she lived all alone with her husband
a chunk of a man and a punk of a man
a hunk of a drunken skunk of a man
when he came home drunk at night
he'd thrashed her black and thrashed her white
thrashed her to within an inch of her life
and snored all night like a pig
one night she gathered her tears all round her shame
covered up the bruise and cried with the pain
you'll not do that ever again
i'll not live anymore with a drunken husband
and that night as he lay drunk in bed
the strangest thought came to her head
she took up the needle and the thread
and went straight into her sleeping husband
she started to stitch with a girlish thrill
a woman's eye and a seamstress' skill
she bibbed and tucked with an iron will
as she stitched all round her sleeping husband
the blanket stitched to the mattress through
she bibbed and tucked the whole night through
waiting for the dawn and her husband
he awoke with a pain in his head
he found that he could not move in bed
she just sat and smiled at her husband
in her hand she held the frying pan
with a flutter in her heart she flew at him
he could not move he cried