Lament of a Wyoming Housewife

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Alas, I was wed to a Wyoming plowman T'was a tragic mistake I did always assert Though he was a good man who loved me the price was A protracted war with the dust and the dirt Dirt lingered in grain fields and loitered in barnyards Glommed onto all his clodhoppers and shirts It jumped out in clumps on my clean kitchen floors and The poor man was puzzled each time I did blurt [Chorus] Life is a toil and love is a trouble Beauty will fade and riches will flee Pleasures will dwindle and prices will double Nothing is as I would wish it to be [Verse 2] I did my reveilles to the dust devils In my Wyoming home I was a soldier in skirts My cannons were cauldrons of tallow a-boil My life was the doldrums from mountains of work On Monday t'was laundry 'til Tuesday was upon me By Wednesday I was ornery and apt to be curt Dirt swept through the windows, crept under the doorsills So did my weeks in full circle revert [Chorus] Life is a toil and love is a trouble Beauty will fade and riches will flee Pleasures will dwindle and prices will double Nothing is as I would wish it to be [Verse 3] From bad to worse when I took to the birthing From various holes on my babies it spurt My life was awash in soiled bibs and diapers I was ever exhausted but always alert A crabby Brunhilde, a broomstick guerilla And though it was hopeless my fate to avert I fought on and on for my home in Wyoming 'Til I swooned in the gloaming, then off in a hearse Now my ghost haunts my husband a-moaning and groaning You buried me in this cursed high prairie dirt [Chorus] Life is a toil and love is a trouble Beauty will fade and riches will flee Pleasures will dwindle and prices will double Nothing is as I would wish it to be Nothing is as I would wish it to be