<b>A Stitch In Time</b> by <i>Christy Moore</i><br /> 
There was a woman and she lived in her own 
Slaved on her own and skivvied on her own 
She had two little boys and two little girls 
She lived all alone with her husband 
 
He was a hunk if a man 
A chunk of a man and a drunk of a man 
A hunk of a drunken spunk of a man 
Such a boozy bruising bully of a husband 
 
When he came home drunk at night 
He thrashed her black and he thrashed her white 
Thrashed her to within an inch of her life 
And snored all night like a pig her drunken husband 
 
One night she gathered her tears all round her shame 
Covered up the bruising cried with the pain 
You'll not do that ever again 
I'll not live anymore with a drunken husband 
 
That night as he lay drunk in bed 
The strangest thought came to her head 
She took the needle and the thread 
And went straight into her sleeping husband 
 
She started to stitch with a girlish thrill 
With a woman's eye and a seamstress skill 
She bibbed and tucked with an iron will 
As she stitched all around her sleeping husband 
 
The top sheet and the bottom sheet too 
The blanket stitched to the mattress through 
She worked and stitched the whole night through 
Waiting for the dawn and her husband 
 
He awoke with a pain in his head 
He found that he could not move in bed 
Sweet God in heaven have I lost me legs 
She just sat and smiled at her husband 
 
In her hand she held the frying pan 
With a flutter in her heart she flew at him 
He could not move so he cried God Damn 
Don't you swear at me you dirty husband 
 
She beat him black and she beat him blue 
With the frying pan and the colander too 
With the rolling pin a stroke or two 
Such a battered and a beaten husband 
 
If you ever come home drunk again 
I'll stitch you up and sew you in 
Then I'll pack my bags and I'll be gone 
I'll not live anymore with a drunken husband 
 
Isn't it true what a wife can do 
With a needle, thread and a stitch or two 
He wiped his slate and his boozin is through 
She don't live anymore with a drunken husband