. . . A Married Man’s Lament, 1910.
Words and music by Frank Wood.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Some time ago there came to town
The famous Chantecler
My wife she went to see
This thing from gay Paree
And now she’s fairly caught the craze
And taken off her clothes
And, dress’d up like a bird
She walks about the place and crows
Chorus
Oh! Chantecler
What have you done for me?
My old girl’s gone M. A. D.
I can’t get a sensible word from Sue
For all she does is to waddle about
And “Cock-a-doo-dle-oo”
- Last night I slept upon the floor
For when I sought my bed
She’d cut it all about
And took the feathers out
I asked her what she’d done with them
She answer’d with a grin
“I’ve shaved the fur from the cat
And stuck the feathers in” - She’s put the dog inside a cage
And feeds it ev’ry day
On giblets, you must know
To try and make it crow
When I got home this afternoon
Our darling baby Jack
Was dress’d up like a duck
And she was teaching him to quack