A popular song from the year 1920.
Words by Paul Carter and Chas. H. Booker.
Music by Chas. H. Booker.
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Now me and my wife we don’t get along
So well here these late days
Now it seems to me the older she gets
The more she change her ways
Now she used to be so loving to me
I thought no one could be so kind
But when I go home now of ev’nings
She don’t pay me no mind
Now ain’t it strange how a woman will change
I’m about to go insane
Chorus
A woman gets tired she gets real tired
Of one man all of the time
The way that gal acts here of late
Is ’bout to cause me to lose my mind
‘Cause when I’m out on my wagon
Trying to sell myself some coal
She’s at the bakers getting jelly roll
‘Cause a woman gets tired
She gets darn tired of one man all of the time
I mean the same man all of the time
I’ll say she does
- Now folks I’m a man that believes in right
And I think I know what’s right from wrong
Now when a man gets off from his work at night
He expects to find his wife at home
Now I don’t want you to think I’m superstitious at all
But I’m sure there’s something going on wrong
‘Cause now when I go home of ev’nings
I always find that she’s just gone
When I was leaving home today
I plainly heard her say
Sung here by Vancha March: