R.b Greaves: "Take A Letter, Maria" Lyrics

Last night, as I got home, about a half past ten

There was the woman I thought I knew in the arms of another man.

I kept my cool, I ain't no fool. Let me tell ya what happened then.

I packed some clothes and I walked out ..and I ain't goin' back again.



Chorus 

So take a letter Maria..address it to my wife

Say I won't be coming home..gotta start a new life

Oh Take a letter Maria..address it to my wife

Send a copy to my lawyer..gotta start a new life



You've been many things but most of all a good secretary to me

And it's time like this I feel, you've always been close to me

Was I wrong to work nights, to try to build a good life?

All work, and no play has just cost me a wife



Chorus

So take a letter Maria..address it to my wife

Say I won't be coming home..gotta start a new life

Take a letter Maria..address it to my wife

Send a copy to my lawyer, gotta have a new life



When a man loves a woman, it's hard to understand 

That she would find pleasure in the arms of another man

I never really noticed, how sweet you are to me

It just so happens I'm free tonight, would you like to have dinner with me?



So take a letter Maria..address it to my wife

Say I won't be coming home..gonna start a new life

Ohhhh, Take a letter Maria..address it to my wife

Send a copy to my lawyer..Gonna have a new life

Take a letter Maria..address it to my wife

Say I won't be coming home..fade out