Your Wife Don't Understand You

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Song Information Singers: Beverly D'Angelo Characters: Lurleen Lumpkin Length: 1:35 Writer(s): Jeff Martin Album: Songs in the Key of Springfield Appearance(s): "Colonel Homer"

"Your Wife Don't Understand You" is a song sung by Lurleen Lumpkin.

Homer heard Lurleen sing the song at The Beer -N- Brawl, and later helped her record it on CD.

Lyrics

Episode version

Lurleen:

Work all day for some old man

Sweat n' break your back.

Homer:

Yeah.

Lurleen:

Then you go home to your castle,

But your queen won't cut you slack.

Homer:

That's true.

Lurleen:

That's why you're losin' all your hair,

That's why you're overweight.

Homer:

Uh-huh.

Lurleen:

That's why you flipped your pickup truck

Right off the interstate.

Homer:

That's right! Except for the pickup truck.

Lurleen:

There's a lot of bull they hand you,

There's nothin' you can do,

Your wife don't understand you, but I do.

No, your wife don't understand you, but I do.

I said no one understands you but I do!

Album version

Announcer:

Our next act is our very own singing waitress, Lurleen. (audience whoops) So I'm, uh, afraid drink service will stop for just a few moments. (audience boos) They're all yers.

Homer:

Stupid Marge tell me to shut up.

Lurleen:

Thank you. Tonight I'd like to try somethin' a little different. It's a song I wrote while I mopped up your dried blood and teeth.

Work all day for some old man

Sweat n' break your back.

Homer:

Yeah.

Lurleen:

Then you go home to your castle,

But your queen won't cut you slack.

Homer:

That's true.

Lurleen:

That's why you're losin' all your hair,

That's why you're overweight.

Homer:

Uh-huh.

Lurleen:

That's why you flipped your pickup truck

Right off the interstate.

Homer:

That's right! Except for the pickup truck.

Lurleen:

There's a lot of bull they hand you,

There's nothin' you can do,

Your wife don't understand you, but I do.

No, your wife don't understand you, but I do.

I said no one understands you but I do!

Homer:

Hey, hey, Lurleen. I gotta say somethin' to ya.

Lurleen;

I'm listenin'.

Homer

Your song touched me in a way I've never felt before. And which way to the can?

Behind the Laughter

It is the fourteenth track on the album Songs in the Key of Springfield.

Appearances

• Episode – "Colonel Homer"