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Artist: The Everly Brothers
Canonical path: /everly-brothers-the/take-a-letter-maria
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Take a Letter Maria
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Take a Letter Maria
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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 start a new life
Last night as I got home
About 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 you what happened then
I packed some clothes and I walked out
And I ain't goin’ back again
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 start a new life
You've been many things but most of all
A good secretary to me
And it's times like this I hope and feel
You've been close to me
Was I wrong to work nights
To try to build a good life
It seems that all work and no play
Has just cost me a wife
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 start a new life
When a man loves a woman that way
It's hard to understand
That she would find more 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 dinner with me
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 start a new life
Gotta start a new life
Gotta start a new life
Gotta start a new life
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