Mary Alice Vanderwaters songs
Old Wife?s Tale
Verse
He was out many night?s painting the town
She was getting pretty tired of his running around
She?s a mother of four, at forty years of age
Holy matrimony had turned into rage
The kids were grown and out on their own
When he stated leaving her home all alone
Her momma once said ?A man?s gotta do,
But don?t let him make a fool out of you.?
Chorus
She was a wife and a mother that night undercover
Searching for him
When she found him with her, she took out the gun
And pointed it at them
Just before the trigger fell she felt her soul rush through hell
This is the forty year old wife?s tale
Verse
The next thing she knew she in the hall
Of the church where they married up against the wall
She had taken the life of the man she loved
She prayed for forgiveness from up above
The gun was still there tight in her grip
When she heard ?I?m so sorry? fall from his lips
Of the man that she thought she had laid to rest
Had knelt down beside her, and took the gun and confessed
Repeat Chorus
Bridge
She had never even fired the gun that night
She was out of her mind and with every right
Repeat Chorus
? 1995 Mary Alice Vanderwaters (BMI)
Verse
He was out many night?s painting the town
She was getting pretty tired of his running around
She?s a mother of four, at forty years of age
Holy matrimony had turned into rage
The kids were grown and out on their own
When he stated leaving her home all alone
Her momma once said ?A man?s gotta do,
But don?t let him make a fool out of you.?
Chorus
She was a wife and a mother that night undercover
Searching for him
When she found him with her, she took out the gun
And pointed it at them
Just before the trigger fell she felt her soul rush through hell
This is the forty year old wife?s tale
Verse
The next thing she knew she in the hall
Of the church where they married up against the wall
She had taken the life of the man she loved
She prayed for forgiveness from up above
The gun was still there tight in her grip
When she heard ?I?m so sorry? fall from his lips
Of the man that she thought she had laid to rest
Had knelt down beside her, and took the gun and confessed
Repeat Chorus
Bridge
She had never even fired the gun that night
She was out of her mind and with every right
Repeat Chorus
? 1995 Mary Alice Vanderwaters (BMI)
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