Yesterday evening the wife came to me and said, “Jack, I’m going to cut the grass.”
I told her no.
She asked me why not and I said, “Cause that’s a man’s man’s job.”
Well she started in with, “I can do anything a man can do and blah, blah, blah.” I let her run with it awhile.
I took to teasing her and telling her that cutting the grass was a man’s man’s job and there was no way she could do a man’s man’s job. It would just have to wait until I healed up.
So that led to one of our typical joke arguments and finally she got the tractor keys and went out to cut grass. Not being able to do much else I stayed inside but I kept thinking about the line, “It’s a man’s man’s job,” and liked it so much that I decided to write a song using that line.
It started out as a joke song but after I got about half way through I let me daughters (and later my wife) read it and they all liked it so I decided I’d make a real song out of it.
Now that the lyrics are finished I have the music in my head as well. I’m gonna turn it into either a deep rhythm and blues song or a smoky soul song. It could go either way.
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A MAN’S JOB
It’s a man’s man’s job
Gotta let me do my man’s man’s job
Woman, I’m a telling you
The way it’s got to be
Ain’t no use pretending
This is just a job for me
When you’re lonely
And you’re feeling down
Call me baby
And I’ll come around
You see now girl
That’s my man’s man’s job
Need to let me do my man’s man’s job
You cain’t do it by yourself you see
That’s just the way it’s always gonna be
When you’re wantin what I’m so good at
Come find me baby cause we both know that
What you needing is a man’s man’s job
What you feeling is a man’s man’s job
Ain’t no fooling ‘bout a man’s man’s job
You know I’ll do it like a man’s man’s job
(Instrumental section and solo)
Gotta let me do my man’s man’s job…
Well, I’m gonna make it all alright
Do my job so very good tonight
If you’ll let me then I’ll do the work
You just lay there baby and enjoy the perks
What ya needing is a man’s man’s job
So I’m gonna do my man’s man’s job
Cain’t nobody do a man’s man’s job
Like I can do a man’s man’s job
So hold on baby her comes ya man’s man’s job
Yeah woman I got ya man’s man’s job…
(Fade out)
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