The Memory Of A Wife Chords by Millie Jackson

_ _ [C] Baby _ _ _ _
And how [D] have you been?
_ Hey mama, I'm hitting [C#] good
Like [C] hell, you ain't been doing so hot
I [F] heard about you
[D] _ Your thing been just as ragged as a bowl [C] of sauerkraut
And that new [F] woman you got done lost [D] her job
She on welfare _
[C] You ain't hitting your hustle no more
Why don't you be honest [D] and tell me like it really is
But that's alright, I know anyhow
[C] You left me for your new [F] love _
[D] Now if she's been all you [A] expected
Why [Cm] _ _ when I called [C] you last night _
[D] Why on your phone disconnected
Now now, [F] is she finding out
It all ain't [G] peaches and cream
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_ _ _ _ _ _ You can move the man from his household
But you won't remove a memory of [A] his wife
_ _ _ _ You see [C] the girl was in love with [F] love
_ [C] Instead of [D] being in love with you
_ _ [A#] _ _ [C] It wasn't fair you should have told her
[C#] [D] About all the changes you put her through
_ _ [C#] [Dm] Now did you tell her about the London and the funky drawers
_ [A] Did you tell her that you're snowing your sleeve
_ _ Did you [Dm] tell her how well you like my cooking
_ How many [A] ridiculous foods you refuse to eat
_ [Dm] I know you didn't tell her about our lovemaking
Or [A] you'd have to tell her that she [Am] can't compete
_ How [F] she'd have to be twice [C] the woman I am
_ _ [D] And still the girl couldn't win
_ [C] Cause I was a wife and a hand
_ And [D] that's three times any girlfriend
_ _ [F] Is she finding out
It all ain't peaches [G] and cream _
_ _ _ She'll [F] have to compete with me
_ _ _ [G] The rest of her life
_ _ Was a job that did, was a job well done
And she won't remove the memory of his [A] wife _
_ Now!
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ You can move the [Am] wife _ _
But the memory lingers on
_ [Dm] _ _
And you can't really win
_ [Am] _ _
You can have [A] him bodily but unless you [Dm] got his mind
You haven't accomplished too much anyway
_ [Am] The first reason I say you can't win is
_ [Dm] _ Suppose his wife is no good
I mean [Am] really took the man through a bunch of changes
_ Then [Dm] he's gonna think you're the same way
Because he's adjusted to [Am] the idea
And would like to think that all women are alike
_ [Dm] _ _ _
_ Now if she was one of [Am] those terrific wives
_ And he was the one [Dm] responsible
Then you gotta deal with a double problem
_ [Am] _ The guilt feelings
_ _ _ [Dm] _ And the fact that he's gonna compare your every [Am] move with hers
My wife didn't cook like that
[Dm] _ _ _
_ _ And if you [Am] accidentally do some of them good things she did
[Dm] _ You're really in trouble
_ _ _ [Am] Cause you see he might call her name one night
While y'all [Dm] make love _
_ _ _ _ [Am] He's comparing whether he tells you about it or _ not
[Dm] _ _ _
_ _ Now the second reason [Am] I say you can't win
Is because of the wife herself
_ [Dm] _ Ain't no woman in her right mind
Gonna sit [Am] back and just let another woman come in
And take her man
_ [Dm] _ If he's really worth having
_ _ [Am] _ _
She might know something we don't
[Dm] _ _ _
_ _ And she will [Am] find out
That crap about the wife is the last to know
Is a [Dm] bunch of happy horse manure
She's the first to find out
_ [Am] _ Cause you see when the stock in her love market
[Dm] _ Drops from a six day week to a one day maybe
[Am] She doesn't need Dow Jones, Mary Jones
Or any [Dm] other Jones to tell her it's time to straighten it out
_ [Am] So girls if you're gonna try, do it right
_ [F] And the job you do, let it be well done
[F#] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] When you put it on him, let it be a one
[G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] Cause I found _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] that you can't remove the memory [G] of love _
_ _ But keep [F] on trying
_ _ _ Keep on [G] doing _ _
_ _ _ [G] Keep [F] on trying girls
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