An Old-Fashioned Wife



[Verse]
 * The modern wife leads a dreadful life,
 * That seems the modern fashion.
 * For wicked ways and cabarets,
 * She seems to have a passion.


 * I never shall be up-to-date,
 * That sort of thing, I know I'd hate.

[Refrain]
 * So I want to be a good little wife
 * In the good old fashioned way.
 * I'll honor and obey,
 * From my home I'll never stray.


 * Although the thing that's smart, is
 * To be out all night at parties,
 * I'll be sitting with my knitting
 * In the good old fashioned way.

[Verse]
 * It's thought quite queer if they last a year,
 * These marriages that we know.
 * You've hardly cried; "Here comes the bride!"
 * Before she's off to Reno.
 * They'll have to change it I suppose,
 * "From; "Here she comes!" to; "There she goes!"

[Refrain]
 * But I want to be a good little wife
 * In the good old fashioned way.
 * For ever and a day,
 * Till our two heads are bent and gray.


 * Through days seren and stormy
 * There will be but one man for me,
 * And we'll weather life together
 * In the good old fashioned way.