Sobbin' Women-Howard Keel

[ti:Sobbin' Women] [ar:Howard Keel] [al:The Best of Howard Keel: Volume I] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sobbin' Women - Howard Keel [00:25.94]Tell you about them sobbing women [00:27.22] [00:27.92]Who lived in the Roman days [00:29.55] [00:30.35]It seems that they all went swimming [00:32.12] [00:32.63]While their man was off to graze [00:34.35] [00:35.22]Well a Roman Troop was riding by [00:37.27] [00:37.86]And saw them in their me-oh-my [00:39.60] [00:40.25]So they took them all back home to dry [00:42.68]Least that's what Plutarch says [00:44.14] [00:44.77]Oh yes them a-women was sobbing [00:47.03]Sobbing sobbing fit to be tied [00:48.82] [00:50.38]Every muscle was throbbing throbbing [00:52.36]From that riotious ride [00:53.53] [00:55.32]Seems they cried and kissed [00:57.16]And kissed and cried [00:58.44]All over that Roman countryside [00:59.59] [01:00.77]So don't forget that [01:02.67] [01:03.43]When you're taking a bride [01:04.64] [01:05.80]Sobbing fit to be tied [01:07.02] [01:08.19]From that riotious ride [01:09.25] [01:14.00]They never did return their plunder [01:16.30]The victor gets all the loot [01:17.84] [01:18.67]They carried them home by thunder [01:20.97]To rotundas small but cute [01:22.72] [01:23.59]And you've never seen so they tell me [01:26.06]Such downright domesticity [01:27.49] [01:28.54]With a Roman baby on each knee [01:30.84]Named Claudius and Brute [01:32.30] [01:33.05]Oh yes them a-women was sobbing [01:35.05]Sobbing sobbing passing them nights [01:37.10] [01:38.64]While the Romans was going out [01:40.25]Hobnobbing starting up fights [01:41.94] [01:43.49]They kept occupied by sewing lots [01:46.54]Of little old togas for them tots [01:49.01]And saying "Some day women folks will have rights" [01:52.98] [01:54.16]Passing all of their nights [01:55.71]Just sewing [01:56.41]While the Romans had fights [01:57.33] [01:59.78]When the men folk went to fetch them [02:01.34] [02:02.41]The women would not be fetched [02:03.79] [02:04.71]It seems when the Romans catch them [02:06.46] [02:07.07]Their lady friends stay catched [02:09.00]Right [02:09.51]Now let this be because it's true [02:11.85]A lesson to the likes of you [02:14.14]Rough them up like them there Romans do [02:16.53]Or else they'll think you're tetched [02:18.06] [02:18.61]Oh yes them women were sobbing [02:20.76]Sobbing sobbing buckets of tears [02:22.58] [02:23.26]Mighty sad [02:23.66] [02:24.21]On account of dobbin dobbin [02:26.09]Really rattled their ears [02:27.38] [02:28.19]And that ain't all [02:28.92] [02:29.44]Oh they acted angry and annoyed [02:31.50] [02:32.19]But secretly they were overjoyed [02:33.70] [02:34.67]You might recall that [02:36.38] [02:37.01]When corralling your steers [02:38.81]Oh oh oh them poor little dears [02:40.63] [02:43.64]Oh yes them a-women was sobbing [02:45.79]Sobbing sobbing weeping a ton [02:48.23]Ah them sobbing women [02:49.54]Just remember what Robin Robin [02:51.43]Robin Hood would have done [02:52.88] [02:53.39]Ah them sobbing women [02:54.64]We'll be just like them there merry men [02:57.01] [02:57.56]And make them all merry once again [02:59.73]And though they'll be a-sobbing for a while [03:02.37] [03:03.25]Oh yes we're gonna make them [03:05.56]Sobbing women smile