He Thinks He'll Keep Her - Mary Chapin Carpenter @ Wolf Trap video free download

Taken from the "Jubilee: Live at Wolf Trap" performance. The sixth single on the album "Come On Come On", "He Thinks He'll Keep Her", was Carpenter's biggest hit off the album.

Written by Carpenter and Don Schlitz, the fast-paced song follows a 36-year-old homemaker who leaves her husband, and was inspired by a 1970s series of Geritol commercials in which a man boasts of his wife's seemingly limitless energy and her many accomplishments, then concludes by saying "My wife ... I think I'll keep her." Carpenter said, "That line has always stuck with me. It's just such a joke."

He Thinks He'll Keep Her lyrics:

She makes his coffee, she makes his bed

She does the laundry, she keeps him fed

When she was twenty-one she wore her mother's lace

She said "forever" with a smile upon her face

She does the car-pool, she PTAs

Doctors and dentists, she drives all day

When she was twenty-nine she delivered number three

And every Christmas card showed a perfect family

Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design

Spit and polish till it shines. He thinks he'll keep her

Everything is so benign, safest place you'll ever find

God forbid you change your mind. He thinks he'll keep her

She packs his suitcase, she sits and waits

With no expression upon her face

When she was thirty-six she met him at their door

She said I'm sorry, I don't love you anymore

Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design

Spit and polish till it shines. He thinks he'll keep her

Everything is so benign, safest place you'll ever find

God forbid you change your mind. He thinks he'll keep her

For fifteen years she had a job and not one raise in pay

Now she's in the typing pool at minimum wage

Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design

Spit and polish till it shines. He thinks he'll keep her

Everything is so benign, safest place you'll ever find

At least until you change your mind. He thinks he'll keep her.