The Memory Of A Wife chords by
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson

N/A
Key: D minor
Verse 1
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Hey Mama,
I'm hittin' good
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Like hell, you ain't been doin' so hot,
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I heard about you
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Your thang been just as ragged
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as a bowl of sauerkraut
And that new woman you
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got done lost her jaw
She on welfare,
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you ain't hittin' your hustle no more
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Why don't you be honest
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and tell me like it really is
But that's alright, I know anyhow
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You left me for your new love
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Now, if she's been
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all you expected,
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tell me why when I call you last night,
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I found your phone disconnected.
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Now, now, is she finding out
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it all ain't peaches and cream?
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I found out early in life,
you can move the man from his household,
But you won't remove the
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memory of his wife
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You see the girl was in love with love
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Instead of being in love with you
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It wasn't fair,
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you should have told her
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About all the changes
you'd put her through
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Now did you tell her about the London
and funky drawers?
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Did you tell her that you're
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snowing your sleeve?
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Did you tell her how well
you like my cooking?
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How many ridiculous foods
you refuse to eat
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I know you didn't tell her
about our letter -makin'
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Or you'd have to tell her that
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she can't compete
Oh, she'd have to be
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twice the woman I am
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And still the girl couldn't win
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Cause I was a wife and a half
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An d that's three times any girlfriend
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Is she finding out it all ain't
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peaches and cream?
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She'll have to compete with me
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The rest of her life
Cause the job I did was a job well done
And she won't remove
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the memory of this one
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No! You can move the wife,
but the memory lingers on,
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Am
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and you can't really win.
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You can have him bodily,
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but unless you got his mind,
you haven't accomplished
too much anyway.
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The first reason I say you can't win
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is, suppose his wife is no good,
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I mean, really took the man
through a bunch of changes.
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Then he's gonna think you're
the same way
because he's adjusted to the idea
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and would like to think
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that all women are alike.
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Now if she was one of those terrific wives
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and he was the one responsible
then you got to deal with
a double problem.
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The guilt feelings and the fact that he's
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going to compare your every move with hers.
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My wife didn't cook like that.
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And if you accidentally do some
of them good things she did,
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you're really in trouble.
Cause you see,
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he might call her name one night
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while y 'all making love.
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He's comparing whether he tells
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you about it or not.
Now, the second reason I say
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you can't win
is because of the wife herself.
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Ain't no woman in her right mind gonna sit back and just let an other
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Am
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woman come in and take her man if he's really worth having.
She might know something
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we don't.
And she will find out.
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That crap about the wife
is the last to know
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is a bunch of happy horse manure.
She's the first to find out
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Cuz you see when the stock
in her love market
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Drops from a six -day
week to a one -day
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Maybe she doesn't need Dow Jones
Mary Jones or any other Jones
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to tell her it's time to straighten it out
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So girls if you're gonna try do it, right?
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And the job you do let it
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be well done
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When you put it on him
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Cause I found out early in life
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That you can't remove the
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memory of the past
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But keep on tryin', keep on doin'
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Keep on tryin' girls
No, give up, oh
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Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Outro 1
Yeah
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