A Woman In The Case - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
A WOMAN IN THE CASE. Copyright, 1891, by Henry J. Wehman. Written, Composed and Sung by James McAvoy. 
The title and the subject of the song I am going to sing you, It is sure to be a woman in the case; Should I mention little things might hit you hard at home and sting you When a woman's implicated in the case. She mixes in with everything, as long as I remember. From the first of January till the last day of December, And when things are running smooth and in the end you find a damper, You can bet that there's a woman in the case. 
Chorus. There's sure to be a woman interested When they start to raise the devil-how they raise; When you hear a pack of lies, well, don't you never he surprised, But you can gamble there's a woman in the case. 
If a man goes out of town one day and does not tell his neighbors, They will bint that there's a lady in the case; You will never satisfy them till they have it in the papers; They must surely have a woman in the case. The scandal In the papers, for the wife it is sufficient; And to kick up some excitement all the papers they are fishing For some pretty young typewriter girl to cover with suspicion, For they've got to ring a lady in the case. 
Chorus. And there's sure to be a woman there to swear That she saw you go in such and such a place; When you're suing for divorce, we must all admit, of course, That they will have to ring a woman in the case. 
If your wife she sits up with a club and waits for you till morning, Don't forget that there's a woman in the case; When you're coming up the stairs she reaches down and gives you warning. Just to show you there's a woman in the case; Then down the stairs and after you around the yard she's racing, With a stick of wood your cocoanut every second she is grazing. When she hollers out, you Mormon, will you stop your chippy-chasing, Then you know that there's a woman in the case. 
Chorus. There's a woman always in the case to queer you, That is sure to keep you guessing in a maze; Should you chance to get a soaker in the kisser with a poker. Just imagine that your wife is in the case. 
Sometimes when you are sober and the scripture you are leading, You will read that there's a woman in the case; And when Adam climbed the apple-tree in the garden of old Eden, Oh, it tells you there's a woman in the case; Adam saw the apples on the tree-Miss Eva told him get 'em; And when Adam eat the peaches, old Miss Eva she was with him; Yes, we know they stole the quinces, but whatever good it did 'em, Still Miss Eva was indicted in the case. 
Chorus. There's a woman mixed in everything to do you; They know how to fool you fifty thousand ways; If you want to have a pudding, get a wife and get a good one, Make her work and have a woman in the race.