ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE – Jez Lowe (Lowe Life Music)
The weary winter had me back on the streets,
Of the tired old town I was born in,
And my hungry heart is only happy to meet
With the girl I left for my fortune.
But now she’s another man’s wife,
A hard drinking man’s wife,
They reckon I’m dicing with life,
It’ll only bring me trouble and strife.
She was shining out like a light in the night,
By the harbour wall where we’d linger,
The lass I left for the big and the bright,
With another man’s ring on her finger.
The man she married is a clown and a curse,
A fearsome fighter and drinker,
He struts around with other women and worse,
Not a penny of wages he gives her.
He’s out to get me and her husband he says,
And there’s parts of me I’ll be losing,
Well I’m no coward but I’d sooner they stay
Down here where I know I can use them.
Sad eyes had never stained a prettier face,
and I curse the day that I left her,
But forbidden fruit is much better to taste,
And one day we’ll taste it together.