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The Devil come up to the farmer one day,

Tee-roo, tee-roo, to the farmer one day,

Says, "One of your fam’ly I’m taking away,

Tee-roo, tee-roo, I’m taking away.

"Oh, please don’t take my eldest son

There’s work on the farm that’s got to be done"

"Take my wife, take my wife, with the joy of my heart

And I hope, by golly, that you never will part"

The Devil put the old lady into a sack

And down the road he goes clickety-clack

When the Devil got her to the fork in the road

He say, "Old woman, you’re a hell of a load"

When the Devil got her to the gates of hell

He says, "Stoke up the fires, we’ll bake her well"

Up came a li’l devil with a ball and chain

She upped with her foot and she kicked out his brains

Then nine little devils went climbing the wall

Screaming, "Take her back, daddy, she’ll murder us all"

The old man was peeping out of a crack

When he saw the old Devil come bringing her back

He says, "Here’s your wife, both sound and well

If I kept her there longer she’d have torn up hell"

He says, "I’ve been a devil most all of my life

But I’ve never been in hell till I met with your wife."

So this goes to show what a woman can do

She can whup out the Devil and her husband, too

This proves that the women are better than men

They can all go to hell and come back again

Another Version

(as sung by my mother)

The Devil he came to the farmer one day

Scratch and Polly fah lah fel edde alle

The Devil he came to the farmer one day

"Theres one of your family I come to carry away"

"I do not want you and I don't want your son"

Scratch and Polly fah lah fel edde alle

"I do not want you and I don't want your son"

"But your old scolding wife is the very one"

He took the old woman up onto his back

Scratch and Polly fah lah fel edde alle

He took the old woman up onto his back

And down to hell he went snappity crack

He set some young devils to preparing some chains

Scratch and Polly fah lah fel edde alle

He set some young devils to preparing some chains

She swung her fist and knocked out all their brains

She upped with an axe and gave the devil a whack

Scratch and Polly fah lah fel edde alle

She upped with an axe and gave the devil a whack

And like a big fool he went lugging her back

"Ol gal," said the farmer. "You faired very well."

Scratch and Polly fah lah fel edde alle

"Ol gal," said the farmer. "You faired very well."

She answered "Ol man, I flattened all hell"

The moral you see is that women are much worse than the men

Scratch and Polly fah lah fel edde alle

The moral you see is that women are much worse than the men

For they been down to hell and got kicked out again