Could I be your day when you arise and light the fields And warm our children's backs and prepare our daily meals I know you are a good wife, so sweet and good and true A lengthy trail I shall walk to prove my love to you See, I've been out a'hunting for a lady I can keep Who keeps my trust and honors me and listens while I speak If I should grow so old, my legs won't let me walk My lungs get filled with demons and I cough instead of talk Could you be my translation and tell my sons I love them true Tell them father's gone away to drink the heavens brew