"Lord! Have Mercy On A Married Man."
Music by J. FRED HELF
Words by EDGAR LESLIE
Published 1911 by J. Fred Helf Co., New York.

[Verse 1.]
Gen'ral Sherman once remarked that "War was Well."
The word I want to use is not so hard to spell,
I've a wife and that's enough,
Gee! but married life is tough,

Case of fight both day and night,
I'm gentle and she's rough,
If I could find the man who married me,
I'd hang him on a sourapple tree.

[1st chorus.]
Wedding Bells, sweet Wedding bells,
Never harmon ize with Baby yells,
Why did I get married?
If I'd only tarried, with the crowd I'd mingle,
Yelling out "God bless the single."

Work by day and fight by night,
Stand it no one can,
So now you congregation,
Say a prayer for my salvation,
Lord! Have mercy on a married man.

[Verse 2.]
Kipling wrote a "Fool there was" and I'm that man,
The "Marriage Stakes" have claimed me as an "also ran."
Ev'ry night, I walk the floor,
Listening to the babies roar,

When they're through their 'Bally hoo,'
My wife begins to snore,
If life depended on the marriage knot,
I'd rather join the Army and be shot.

[2nd chorus.]
Wedding Bells, sweet Wedding bells,
never harmonize with Baby yells,
Why did I get married?
If I'd only tarried, was I off my "Beedle"
send for "Watson quick the needle,"

Work by day and fight by night,
Stand it no one can,
If you want to hear the jingle of two dimes
why just stay single,
Lord! have mercy on a married man.