THE SINGLE WIFE  LYRICS

               THE SINGLE WIFE

                  Songwriter  JOHN HARVEY

You could tell she loved him by the way she held him

You could see her glowing when she talked about him
She would fight the whole world if that's what he wanted
She would bear the cold wind just to be beside him

It was on a dark night that they came to tell her
That the man she loved would not be returning
Something bad had happened at the place he worked at
And they couldn't save him now her love was gone

It has been a year now since he went away
But she gets his lunch box every single day
She pretends he comes home like he did at five
For she's not a widow she's a single wife

Every Sunday morning reads the paper with him
Serves his cup of coffee and lights up his pipe
Then when comes the nightime curls right up beside him
She won't say he's gone now she's a single wife


-  written 1981
-  appears on CD My Love
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