Should I Betray? Lyrics - Front Parlour Ballads - Richard Thompson

Should I betray you to your spouse? 

The wife who waits back at the house 

She doesn't know that you're a louse 

That's not the man she wed 

She doesn't know the deals you make 

The throats you cut, the vows you break 

To buy up some old lady's stake 

Quick before she's dead 

She doesn't see your oily smarm 

You pour on in the place of charm 

When you've got some shopgirl by the arm 

Steering her into bed 

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That virgin forest you chopped down 

To build another ugly town 

I'll tell your wife you bribed them round 

To back your plan instead 

But perhaps she doesn't want to see 

The heel that you've turned out to be 

That's why she'll take a gin or three 

To drive doubts from her head 

While she's working hard enough 

With housework, kids and all that stuff 

You're out there with some bit of fluff 

Cruising on the Med 

She thought the leopard's spots were paint 

She thought she'd turn you to a saint 

Kept hoping, though the hope grew faint 

That you were better bred 

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Should I betray you to your spouse? 

The wife who waits back at the house 

She doesn't know that you're a louse 

That's not the man she wed