Clancy Brothers In Concert William Bloat In a mean abode On the Shankell road Lived a man named William Bloat And he had a wife The bane of his life Who always got his goat And one day at dawn With her night dress on He slit her bloody throat Now he was glad He had done what he had As she lay there stiff and still Til suddenly all of the angry law Filled his soul with an awful chill And to finish the fun So well begun He decided himself to kill Then he took the sheet From his wifes cold feet And he twisted it into a rope He hanged himself From the pantry shelf Was an easy endless hope With his dying breath And he facing death He solemnly cursed the pope But the strangest turn Of this whole concern Was only just beginnin He went to hell But his wife got well And shes still alive and sinnin For the razor blade Was German-made But the rope was Belfast linen |
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