Sobbin’ Women

[ADAM]
Tell ya 'bout them sobbin' women
Who lived in the Roman days
It seems that they all went swimmin'
While their men was off to graze
Well, a Roman troop was ridin' by
And saw them in their "me oh my"
So they took 'em all back home to dry
Least that's what Plutarch says
Oh yes!

Them a woman was sobbin', sobbin', sobbin'
Fit to be tied
Ev'ry muscle was throbbin', throbbin'
From that riotous ride
Seems they cried and kissed and kissed and cried
All over that Roman countryside
So don't forget that when you're takin' a bride
Sobbin' fit to be tied
From that riotous ride

They never did return their plunder
The victor gets all the loot
They carried them home, by thunder
To rotundas small but cute
And you've never seens so
They tell me, such downright domesticity
With a Roman baby on each knee
Named "Claudius" and "Brute"

[BENJAMIN, CALEB, DANIEL, EPHRAIM, FRANK, GIDEON]
Oh yes!
Them a women was sobbin', sobbin'

[ADAM]
Passin' them nights
While the Romans was goin' out hobnobbin'
Startin' up fights
They kept occupied by sewin' lots of little old togas
For them tots and sayin' "someday women folk'll have rights"

[BENJAMIN, CALEB, DANIEL, EPHRAIM, FRANK, GIDEON]
Passin' all o' them nights

[ADAM]
Just sewin'!

[BENJAMIN, CALEB, DANIEL, EPHRAIM, FRANK, GIDEON]
While the Romans had fights

[CALEB]
(spoken]
Hey listen to this!

(sung)
Now when their men folk went to fetch 'em
Them women would not be fetched

[FRANK]
It seems them Romans ketch 'em
That their lady friends stay ketched

[ADAM]
Right
Now let this be because it's true
A lesson to the likes of you
Rough 'em up like them there Romans do
Or else they'll think you're tetched

[BENJAMIN, CALEB, DANIEL, EPHRAIM, FRANK, GIDEON]
Oh yes!
Them a women was sobbin', sobbin'
Sobbin' buckets of tears

[ADAM]
Mighty sad

[BENJAMIN, CALEB, DANIEL, EPHRAIM, FRANK, GIDEON]
On account o' old dobbin'
Dobbin' really rattled their ears

[ADAM]
(spoken)
And that ain't all
(sung)
Oh they acted angry and annoyed

[GIDEON]
But secretly they was overjoyed

[ADAM]
You might recall that when corralin' your streets

BROTHERS
Oh, oh, oh, oh them poe little dears

[[BENJAMIN, CALEB, DANIEL, EPHRAIM, FRANK, GIDEON (ADAM)]
Oh yes
Them a women was sobbin', sobbin', sobbin' (Oh yes)
Weepin' a ton (Then sobbin' women)
Just remember what Robin, Robin, Robin (Oh yes)
Hood woulda done (Them sobbin' women)
We'll be just like them three merry men (Oh yes)
And make 'em all merry once again (Them sobbin' women)

[ADAM]
And though they'll be a sobbin' for a while

[ALL]
Oh yes
We're gonna make them sobbin' women smile
Yah!