Housewife's Lament-Audio Idols

[ti:Housewife's Lament] [ar:Audio Idols] [al:1950's Favourites] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Housewife's Lament - Audio Idols (音频偶像) [00:08.45]One day I was walking I heard a complaining [00:12.34]And saw an old woman the picture of gloom [00:16.11]She gazed at the mud on her doorstep ('twas raining) [00:19.82]And this was her song as she wielded her broom [00:24.13] [00:25.24]Life is a trial and love is a trouble [00:28.59] [00:29.21]Beauty will fade and riches will flee [00:32.56] [00:33.30]Pleasures they dwindle and prices they double [00:36.84]And nothing is as I would wish it to be [00:41.39] [00:41.98]It's sweeping at six and it's dusting at seven [00:45.95]It's victuals at eight and it's dishes at nine [00:49.64]It's potting and panning form ten to eleven [00:53.39]We scarce break our fast till we plan how to dine [00:57.21]With grease and with grime from corner to center [01:01.00]Forever at war and forever alert [01:04.79]No rest for a day lest the enemy enter [01:08.64]I spend my whole life in struggle with dirt [01:12.41] [01:13.88]Life is a trial and love is a trouble [01:17.59]Beauty will fade and riches will flee [01:21.10] [01:21.63]Pleasures they dwindle and prices they double [01:25.55]And nothing is as I would wish it to be [01:29.53] [01:46.95]Last night in my dreams I was stationed forever [01:50.86]On a far little rock in the midst of the sea [01:55.08]My one chance of life was a ceaseless endeavor [01:59.07]To sweep off the waves as they swept over me [02:03.29]Alas Twas no dream; ahead I behold it [02:07.66]I see I am helpless my fate to avert [02:11.69]She lay down her broom her apron she folded [02:15.27] [02:15.93]She lay down and died and was buried in dirt [02:19.37] [02:21.02]Life is a trial and love is a trouble [02:24.98]Beauty will fade and riches will flee [02:29.31]Pleasures they dwindle and prices they double [02:33.46]And nothing is as I would wish it to be