“There's Bound to be a Row”

Description

Singer has "an awful wife." "If I do everything that's right, she'll find a fault somehow." He sleeps on the sofa when she takes in a lodger. She takes his money, gives him a meager allowance, "and if I spend it all at once, there's bound to be a row"

Cross references

• cf. "Devilish Mary" [Laws Q4] (theme)
• cf. "The Wearing of the Britches" (theme)

Broadsides

• Bodleian, Harding B 11(3778), "There's Bound to be a Row," J. Harkness (Preston), 1840-1866; also Harding B 11(3777), "Theres Bound to be a Row"

Recordings

• Jimmy McBeath, "Bound to be a Row" (on Voice01)

References

1. Roud #1616
2. BI, RcTBTBAR