The Memory Of A Wife chords by Millie Jackson

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