Your Wife
Lyric by Andrew Donnelly and Addison Burkhardt
Music by Al Piantadosi
Published 1915

[verse 1]
Who is the one who gave up all, her home and parents too,
Perhaps to give up happiness for faith she placed in you?
Who is the one that years ago you went ten miles to see,
But now nelect while she's at home with baby on her knee?
Who is the one you seldom think about,
Yet know you really couldn't do without?

[chorus]
It's your wife, it's your wife,
Who puts up with the strife,
When friends have deserted she's true
If things are going wrong
She cheers you with a song,
And looks happy tho' her heart is breaking too,
Don't forget then regret, that you owe her a debt
She gave you the best part of her life,
And outside of your mother there is only just one other
She's the noblest of the sweethearts, Your wife.

[verse 2]
Who is the one who sticks like glue in sunshine and in rain,
Who'd scrape for you and scrub for you and laugh away the pain?
Who is the one who nursed you when the spell of sickness fell,
And suffered thru' the sleepless nights till you were up and well?
Who is the one who doesn't break the link,
Who' from path you stray and take to drink?

[repeat chorus]