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 Come sit you down my loving wife,

there’s nothing we have got here

Like thunder in the element

she rattled in my ears!

And the gill stoup she did take up,

saying, she would crack my crown,

Which makes the matter ten times worse,

and the world’s turn’d upside-down.

As I went out in a morning clear,

I met with Grannywell,

With her I set me down a while,

to tell my doleful tale;

Then Grannie she made this reply,

with a dark and dismal frown,

Why did you not her sides well beast,

and turn her upside-down?

Then I went home to my loving wife,

she began to scold and brawl,

I took old Grannie’s good advice,

and her sides I did well maul;

From that to this she’s as good a wife

as ever comes to town;

From her I ne’er had a word of strife,

since I turn’d her upside-down.

