Pete Shelley - Better off Without a Wife lyrics

All my friends are married Every Tom and Dick and Harry You must be strong if you're to go it alone Here's to the bachelors and bowery bums All that feel that they're the ones That are better off without a wife I like to sleep until the crack of noon Midnight howlin' at the moon Goin' out when I want to and I come home when I please Don't need to ask permission If I wanna go out fishin' Never have to ask for the keys I've never been no Valentino But I had a girl who lived in Reno Left me for a trumpet player, didn't let it get me down He was wanted for a**ault Though he said it weren't his fault You know the coppers rode him right out of town I like sleepin' to the crack of noon Midnight howlin' at the moon Goin' out when I want to and I come home when I please Don't need to ask permission If I wanna go out fishin' Never have to ask for the keys I've been sleepin' to the crack of noon Midnight howlin' at the moon Goin' out when I want to, comin' home when I please Don't need to ask permission If I wanna go out fishin' Never have to ask for the keys So I'm selfish 'bout my privacy But as long as I can be with me We get along so very well I can't believe it I love to chew the fat with folks I've been listening to all your dirty jokes And I'm thankful for these friends I do receive I been sleepin' to the crack of noon Midnight howlin' at the moon Goin' out when I want to, comin' home when I please I don't need to ask permission If I wanna go out fishin' Never have to ask for the keys Here's to the bachelors and bowery bums Those that feel that they're the ones That are better off without a wife