The Bachelor Chords

[Verse 1]
G                C        G         D
Oh, when I was a bachelor young and airy
C            D      G
Hearty was I and content.
G           C        G         D
I married a wife for to lie by me
C                   D     G
Which causes me for to lament.
G           D     C       G
When I come home, wet and weary
 G                 C     D
It’s wet and weary do I come
   G         C       G         D
Me wife’s in bed til after eleven
        C                 D        G
On the longest day in the month of June.
 
 
[Verse 2]
G              C       G      D
The very first year my wife I married
C                      D       G
I scarce could get one wink of sleep.
G                 
For she rubbed me 
C             D         D
shins til the blood did trickle
       C                D         G
Saying husband dear put down your feet.
G             D       C       G
But when that I asked her the question
G                      C         D
It’s husband dear, now come come come
G                C     
Young women, you know, 
     G         D
they must have pleasure
      C                    D     G
And a poor man’s labour is never done.
 
 
[Verse 3]
G                 C      G       D
And the very next year my wife I married
    C            D       G
She bore to me a loving son.
G                C       G        D
And she sends me down to rock the cradle
        C               D        G
And she gives me kisses when I’m done,
G         D         C         G
And if he cries she beats and bangs me
G                        C            D
And if he roars, I’m the first for to run
G                  C      
It’s away from the hearth 
        G           D
with me coat and me britches
        C                    D     G
And the poor man’s labour is never done.
 
 
[Verse 4]
G               C         
So come all you young men 
  G           D
I pray take a warning
   C                 D      G
Be sure and choose a loving wife.
G                  C     G        D
Aye and don’t take home my wife’s sister
C                    D       G
Or she’ll plague you all her life.
G              D       C      G
And don’t take home my wife’s mother
G                    C    D
Or she’ll plague you even more
   G        C       G           D
Oh come and take me wife with a welcome
    C                D        G
And then my troubles will be o’er.