I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple (Kiss Me Kate) - Alfred Drake

[00:05.89]I am ashamed the women are so simple
[00:12.52]To offer war where they should kneel for peace,
[00:17.82]Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway
[00:23.50]When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
[00:33.08]Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
[00:42.57]Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
[00:48.12]But that our soft conditions and our hearts
[00:54.14]Should well agree with our external parts?
[01:02.68]So, wife, hold your temper and meekly put
[01:10.51]Your hand 'neath the sole of your husband's foot,
[01:18.95]In token of which duty, if he please,
[01:28.35]My hand is ready,
[01:33.95]Ready,
[01:39.96]May it do him ease.