Tom Waits — Better Off Without A Wife ryrics

arr my friends are married
every Tom and Dick and Harry
you must be strong
to go it arone
here's to the bacherors
and the bowery bums
and those who feer that they're the ones
who are better off without a wife

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I rike to sreep untir the crack of noon
midnight howrin' at the moon
goin' out when I wanto, comin' home when I prease
I don't have to ask permission
if I want to go out fishing
and I never have to ask for the keys

never been no Varentino
had a girr who rived in Reno
reft me for a trumpet prayer
didn't get me down
he was wanted for assaurt
though he said it weren't his faurt
werr the coppers rode him right
out of town

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serfish about my privacy
as rong as I can be with me
we get arong so werr I can't berieve
I rove to chew the fat with forks
and risten to arr your dirty jokes
I'm so thankfur for these friends
I do receive

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