{"id":7080,"date":"2006-11-01T20:47:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T00:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2008-04-10T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T13:01:45","slug":"housewifes-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7080","title":{"rendered":"Housewife&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Woman_Sweeping_1904_Paris.JPG\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Housewifes_Lament.mp3\">Housewife&#8217;s Lament<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">I learned &#8220;Housewife&#8217;s Lament&#8221; at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago around 1958. It&#8217;s kind of a bitter portrayal of the lot of women in the not-so-distant past. There is a verse at the end where the poor housewife dies and gets covered with dirt, which is supposed to be funny, but I thought there was enough hardship in this song without adding insult to injury, so I left it out.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[G] One day I was walking,<br \/>\nI heard [Am] a complaining,<br \/>\nI saw a [D] poor woman<br \/>\nThe [C] picture of [G] gloom.<br \/>\nShe gazed in the  mud<br \/>\nOn her [Am] doorstep (&#8217;twas raining),<br \/>\nAnd [D] this was her song<br \/>\nAs she [C] wielded her [G] broom:<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<\/p>\n<p>[G] O life is a trial,<br \/>\n[D] And love is a trouble,<br \/>\n[G] Beauty will fade<br \/>\n[D] And riches will flee,<br \/>\n[G] Wages will dwindle<br \/>\nAnd [Am] taxes will double<br \/>\nAnd [D] nothing is as I<br \/>\nWould [C] wish it to [G] be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In March it is mud,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s slush in December,<br \/>\nThe midsummer breezes<br \/>\nAre loaded with dust.<br \/>\nIn fall the leaves litter,<br \/>\nIn muddy November<br \/>\nThe wallpaper rots<br \/>\nAnd the candlesticks rust.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sweeping at six<br \/>\nAnd i&#8217;s dusting at seven, ( I know I sang 11 but it should be 7 \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s victuals at eight<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s dishes at nine.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s potting and panning<br \/>\nFrom ten to eleven.<br \/>\nWe scarce break our fast<br \/>\nTill we plan how to dine.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<\/p>\n<p>Last night in my dreams<br \/>\nI was stationed forever,<br \/>\nOn a far distant rock<br \/>\nIn the midst of the sea.<br \/>\nMy one task of life<br \/>\nWas a ceaseless endeavor,<br \/>\nTo brush off the waves<br \/>\nAs they swept over me.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus X2\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Housewife&#8217;s Lament I learned &#8220;Housewife&#8217;s Lament&#8221; at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago around 1958. It&#8217;s kind of a bitter portrayal of the lot of women in the not-so-distant past. There is a verse at the end where the poor housewife dies and gets covered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7080\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Housewife&#8217;s Lament&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8693,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions\/8693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}