A
        Word of Advice.

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COME all sporting husbands, wherever you be,
In high life, or low life, of every degree,
A word of adrice I am going to pen,
It's good for all sorts and conditions of men.
                                                      Derry down.

Some men when they're married are pending their live
In drinking and gaming, and beating their wives.
But when that the days of their bloom it is past,
It only brings sorrow and shame at the last.

To the public they go then without dread or fear,
With a pipe and a pot of good ale or strong beer,
Tho' the landlord will serve you, and come at your call,
When you money's all gone, he'll laugh at your downfal

With the money you take him he's filling his bags,
While your own family are clothed in rags,
There's the best roast and boil'd to his table is bro
While your wife and children eat potatoes and salt

There's the landladies' also, like dolls at a fair,
With silk gown and lace cap are stuck in the bar,
Is it not a shame such things should be said,
While your own wife has scarcely a cap to her hea

Now all the week long while spending your money,
They'll caress you with words that are sweeterthan bone
But when for to please them you have spent it all,
You'll find that their honey's as bitter as gall.

Strong ale at the first it was sent for our good,
To strengthen our bodies, and nourish our blood
But drank to excess, why it must be confess'd,
It oftentimes makes a man worse than a beast.

Tho' others should drink, and spend all that they can,
That's no reason why you should act the same plan,
Tho' they swear, lie, swagger, and drink till they burst.
Be advised and think on your own family first.

Now if you should owe them a shilling or two,
You quickly will find them look very blue,
But if you have money your reckoning to pay,
It's thank you, kind sir, you're welcome to me

So all rakish husbands who are given to roam,
I'd have you think better for the time to come
Look well to yourself, your children, and wife
Then you may live happy the rest of your life.