Yes, lissen to your daddy warn you,
'Fore you start travelling,
Woman may born you, love you and mourn you,
But a woman is a sometime thing,
Yes, a woman is a sometime thing.
Your mammy is first to name you,
And she'll tie you to her apron string,
Then she'll shame you, she'll blame you
Till your woman comes to claim you,
'Cause a woman is a sometime thing,
Yes, a woman is a sometime thing.
Don't you never let a woman grieve you
'Cause she's got your weddin' ring.
She'll love and deceive you,
Take your clothes and leave you
'Cause, yes, a woman is a sometime thing.
Oh, a woman is a sometime thing.
Yes, lissen to your daddy warn you,
'Fore you start travellin',
Woman may born you, love you and mourn you,
But, yes, woman is a sometime thing,
Yes, woman is a sometime thing.
Your mammy is first to name you,
And she'll tie you to her apron string,
Then she'll shame you, she'll blame you
Till your woman comes and claim you,
Yes, a woman is a sometime thing,
Yes, a woman is a sometime thing.
Ah, Don't you never let a woman grieve you
'Cause she's got your weddin' ring.
She'll love and deceive you,
She'll take your clothes and leave you
'Cause, yes, a woman is a sometime thing.
Yes, woman is a sometime thing.
Yes, a, a woman is a sometime...
There now, what I tell you; he's asleep already.