Marrow Bones

MARROW BONES

There was an old woman, who in our town did dwell

Who loved her husband dearly, but another man twice as

well

She went to the doctor to see what she could find

To see what she could find, sir, for to make her old

man blind

Feed him eggs and marrow bones, feed them to him all

And you'll make you old man so blind that he won't see

you at all

She fed him eggs and marrow bones. She fed them to him

all

And she made her old man so blind that he couldn't see

her at all

Now that I'm getting old and blind, I'm weary of my

life

So I will go and drown myself, and that will end my

strife

To drown yourself to drown yourself, now that would be

a sin

You just stand by the river bank and I will push you in

So the old woman, she took a running jump for to push

the old man in

The old man he just stepped aside, and the old woman

she fell in

"Save me, save me," the old woman she did call.

The old man said "I am so blind that I can't see you at

all."

She swam along, she swam along till she came to the

river's brim

But the old man he got a big long pole, and he pushed

her further in

So now the old woman is dead and gone, and the devil

has got her soul

And wasn't she just a durned old fool, that she didn't

grab that

pole

Eggs, eggs and marrow bones will make your old man

blind

But if you want for to do him in, creep up from behind