Take a Letter Maria

[00:06.50] Last night, as I got home, about a half past ten
[00:12.44] There was the woman I thought I knew in the arms of another man.
[00:18.40] I kept my cool, I ain't no fool. Let me tell ya what happened then.
[00:24.47] I packed some clothes and I walked out .and I ain't goin' back again.
[00:30.16] So take a letter Maria.address it to my wife
[00:36.37] Say I won't be coming home.gotta start a new life
[00:42.07] Oh Take a letter Maria.address it to my wife
[00:48.03] Send a copy to my lawyer.gotta start a new life
[00:53.70] You've been many things but most of all a good secretary to me
[00:59.53] And it's time like this I feel, you've always been close to me
[01:05.70] Was I wrong to work nights, to try to build a good life?
[01:11.72] All work, and no play has just cost me a wife
[01:17.23] So take a letter Maria.address it to my wife
[01:23.44] Say I won't be coming home.gotta start a new life
[01:29.24] Take a letter Maria.address it to my wife
[01:35.41] Send a copy to my lawyer, gotta have a new life
[01:41.16] When a man loves a woman, it's hard to understand
[01:47.18] That she would find more pleasure in the arms of another man
[01:53.56] I never really noticed, how sweet you are to me
[01:59.29] It just so happens I'm free tonight, would you like to have dinner with me?
[02:05.07] So take a letter Maria.address it to my wife
[02:11.46] Say I won't be coming home.gonna start a new life
[02:16.18] Ohhhh, Take a letter Maria.address it to my wife
[02:23.15] Send a copy to my lawyer.Gonna have a new life
[02:28.92] Take a letter Maria.address it to my wife
[02:35.12] Say I won't be coming home.fade out
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