I wish I had taken my mother’s advice, and married a nice little wife,

And settled down in the old home town, to lead an honest life.

My father gave me a fortune, I placed it all in my trunk,

But I lost it all a-gambling, one night while I was drunk.

I’ll never get drunk any more.

And this one:

Wifie says you’re crazy, you’re drunk, you’re blind and can’t see,

That’s nothing but a cabbage head the grocer gave to me.

Now ten thousand miles I’ve traveled, with ten thousand more to go,

But whiskers on a cabbage head I never saw before.