Swamp Dogg - Ugly Man's Wife

Swamp Dogg - "Ugly Man's Wife" from his new album Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th ST. Purchase/save here: https://ohboy.lnk.to/blackgrass

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Ugly Man's Wife (LYRICS)

If you want to live the high life
become a ugly mans wife
they’ll let you do what you wanna do
they’re so glad to be around you
most of the time they have two jobs
plus loaning money on the side they be loan sharks
take my advice
I ain’t gonna tell you twice
if you want to live the high life
become a ugly mans wife
you gonna always have a new ride
so he can brag w hen you drive by
he’s gonna put you in a house thats mean
and furnish it like you are the queen
take my advice
I ain’t gonna tell you twice
if you want to live the high life
become a ugly mans wife
don’t mess with no man who thinks he’s prettier than you
and don’t get caught up in no mans blues
don’t lose your composer cause he’s hung like a t-bone
your man can lick his eyebrows and that’s enough to keep you home
ugly men are pretty inside
when you wake up in the morning and he thinks your cute
he’ll call back home three or four times
to see if there’s anything you want him to do
take my advice
I ain’t gonna tell you twice
if you want to live the high life
become a ugly mans wife


Hailed by Pitchfork as “one of pop’s great cult acts,” Swamp Dogg has spent the better part of the last 70 years pushing the boundaries of soul, funk, and R&B, rebelling against the confining racial and commercial politics of the music industry with more than two dozen critically acclaimed albums ranging from the radically subversive to the downright absurd.

With his remarkable new collection, Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St., Swamp Dogg adds yet another chapter to his endlessly surprising career, celebrating the sounds he grew up on in 1940s Virginia while at the same time shining a spotlight on bluegrass music’s deep African American roots. Produced by Ryan Olson and recorded with an all-star band including Noam Pikelny, Sierra Hull, Jerry Douglas, Chris Scruggs, Billy Contreras, and Kenny Vaughan, the collection is a riotous blend of past and present, one that filers the sacred and profane through a progressive Appalachian lens that nods to tradition without ever being bound by it. Special guests like Margo Price, Vernon Reid, Jenny Lewis, Justin Vernon, and The Cactus Blossoms all add to the excitement, but it’s ultimately the 81-year-old Swamp Dogg’s delivery—sly and playful and full of genuine joy and ache—that steals the show. The result is a record that’s as reverent as it is raunchy, a work that challenges conventional notions of genre and race as it combines lust and heartbreak, pain and ecstasy, revolution and ridiculousness the way only Swamp Dogg can.

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