I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again
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When I was single, went dressed all so fine,
Now I am married, go ragged all the time.
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I wish I was a single girl again, O Lord
I wish I was a single girl again.
When I was single, my shoes did screak
Now I am married, my shoes they do leak.
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Three little babes crying for bread
With none to give them, I'd rather be dead.
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One a-crying, "Mama, I want a piece of bread."
One a-crying, "Mama, I want to go to bed."
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Wash them little feet and out them to bed
Along comes a drunkard and wishes they were dead.
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Wash their little feet and send them to school
Along comes a drunkard and calls them a fool.
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When he comes in it's a curse and a row
Knocking down the children and pulling out my hair.
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Dishes to wash, springs to go to
When you are married, you've all to do.
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Supper to get, the cows to milk
Them blamed little children is all crying yet.
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"I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again" is a country song. It was adapted by A. P. Carter for<br> The Carter Family who sang it as "Single Girl, Married Girl".<br> It was printed in<br> Anne Warner's Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne & Frank Warner Collection (1984),<br> Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society (1955),<br> Morris's Folksongs of Florida (1950),<br> Scarborough's A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains (1937),<br> Sharp's English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1932, expanded from the<br> first edition of 1917),<br> John A. and Alan Lomax's Folk Song U.S.A. (1947),<br> Alan Lomax's The Folk Songs of North America as "Single Girl" (1960) and<br> Darling The New American Songster: Traditional Ballads and Songs of North America (1992).<br> It is in the Roud Folk Song Index as #436.<br> It was recorded by<br> Anne, Judy, & Zeke Canova (1928),<br> Cousin Emmy (1947),<br> Vernon Dalhart (1925),<br> Sid Harkreader (1925),<br> Kelly Harrell (1925) (1926),<br> Roscoe Holcomb,<br> Lulu Belle & Scotty (1938,1939),<br> New Lost City Ramblers as "Single Girl" on Remembrance of Things to Come (1973),<br> Frank Proffitt as "Single Girl" on Memorial Album (1968),<br> Riley Puckett (1939),<br> Pete Seeger as "When I Was Single" on Frontier Ballads (c. 1954) and<br> Henry Whitter (1925).<br>
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