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First Year Blues

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Hank Williams Canonical path: /hank-williams-sr/first-year-blues Related lyric paths: 6 Video embedded: yes
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First Year Blues

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Now I've been married about six months

Only six months you see

The first three months was all okay

The last three is killin' me

My wife began to hissin', she cut down on her kissin'

And then she failed to shine my shoes

My shirts became wrinkled

My pants with dirt were sprinkled

And I took the first year blues

Well then she started naggin'

She left the sink a'saggin'

With dishes piled up high

No food upon the table, she said, "If I get able

I cook something bye and bye"

Then I began to wonder, if I had made a blunder

When I said, "I do", she must have read my thinkin'

Her eyes began to blinkin' and that gal broke in to

Well I heard the dishes crashin'

And I began to dashin'

Gettin' out of sight

For right there was my honey

On who I'd spent my money, turnin' into dynamite

Then after she'd exploded, her meanness all unloaded

And things began to simmer down

I found myself a'bleedin' and very much a'needin'

Of stitches taken all around

Well then she started cryin', I felt myself a'sighin'

And then I took her in my arms

I was afraid to scold her, so I just gently told her

She didn't do a bit of harm

Now the first six months is over and I am much the older

And experienced with a wife

If I can take the next six, my friends all say I'll be fixed

To take it the rest of my life

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