Jane Was A Good Wife Poem by Francis Duggan

To Joe her alcoholic wife and child beating husband Jane was a good wife
In his early thirties he took his own life
After coming home from the pub drunk he often beat her and their children John and Ann
He was a disturbed and very angry man

After being arrested by the police after assaulting a man in a pub he hung himself in the jail cell
The local police sergeant knocked on her door the sad news for to tell
And though he had been cruel to herself and her children for years
For him she did grieve and for him she shed tears

A grandmother in her early sixties her shoulder length hair silver gray
She never remarried and single she will stay
For as long as she lives she has learned the hard way
That for our lessons in life there is some price to pay

Jane is a beautiful person compassionate and kind
And any flaw in her would be hard to find
She devotes many hours every week to helping the homeless and hungry and financially down
To live as a good person is her claim to renown.