Uploaded February 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Traditional folksong, with a twist...
Recorded and filmed during our stay in the Bahamas, Feb 2015
There was a woman in our town and in our town did dwell
She loved her husband dearly but another man twice as well
And sing right fol lidder ah layer ee oh, sing right fol lure ahh lay.
She went down to the doctor to see if she could find
Anything in the whole wide world to make her old man blind.
“You get some eggs and marrowbones and put them on to boil
And when he's finished he'll be so blind that he won't see you at all.”
So the doctor he wrote a letter and told him what she spoke.
The husband thanked him kindly and he said he saw the joke.
But the old man being a crafty bugger, he knew it all before
He ate them up and he says : 'Me dear, I can't see you at all'
"Well, now that I am old and blind, I'm tired of my life
So I'll go to the river's edge, and there I'll end my strife"
“You poor old man, you blind old man, I well see what you mean
If you'd really like to drown yourself I'll take you to the stream.”
They walked along together till they come to the river's brim
So gently there she's kissed him and she crept away behind
So the old woman, she took a running jump for to push the old man in
But the old man heard and he jumped aside and she went tumbling in
“Oh help, oh help, my husband dear,” so loudly she did call,
“Oh don't you remember that I've gone blind and can't see you at all?”
Now the old man being kindhearted and he knew she couldn't swim
He got himself a very long pole and shoved her farther in.
Oh it may take eggs and marrowbones to make your old man blind
But if you want to murder him you must creep up from behind.
Traditional folksong, with a twist...
Recorded and filmed during our stay in the Bahamas, Feb 2015
There was a woman in our town and in our town did dwell
She loved her husband dearly but another man twice as well
And sing right fol lidder ah layer ee oh, sing right fol lure ahh lay.
She went down to the doctor to see if she could find
Anything in the whole wide world to make her old man blind.
“You get some eggs and marrowbones and put them on to boil
And when he's finished he'll be so blind that he won't see you at all.”
So the doctor he wrote a letter and told him what she spoke.
The husband thanked him kindly and he said he saw the joke.
But the old man being a crafty bugger, he knew it all before
He ate them up and he says : 'Me dear, I can't see you at all'
"Well, now that I am old and blind, I'm tired of my life
So I'll go to the river's edge, and there I'll end my strife"
“You poor old man, you blind old man, I well see what you mean
If you'd really like to drown yourself I'll take you to the stream.”
They walked along together till they come to the river's brim
So gently there she's kissed him and she crept away behind
So the old woman, she took a running jump for to push the old man in
But the old man heard and he jumped aside and she went tumbling in
“Oh help, oh help, my husband dear,” so loudly she did call,
“Oh don't you remember that I've gone blind and can't see you at all?”
Now the old man being kindhearted and he knew she couldn't swim
He got himself a very long pole and shoved her farther in.
Oh it may take eggs and marrowbones to make your old man blind
But if you want to murder him you must creep up from behind.
