Now I am married, my feet on the flo’.

I wish I was single again,

I wish I was single again.

The water is to bring, the flo’ to sweep,

The children are cryin’ and nothin’ to eat.

I wish I was single again,

I wish I was single again.

Wash their little faces, tuck them in their bed,

In comes that drunken man—I wish he was dead.

I wish I was single again,