I Wish I Was Your Friend

(Harlan Howard)



I wish I was your friend

And not your wife.



You're with your friends each night

While home alone my teardrops fall

You're having such a good time

You don't take time to call.



I seldom see you anymore

It's such a lonely life

I wish I was your friend

And not your wife.



I wish I was your friend

How happy I could be

To have you call me every night

And want to be with me.



You'd always take me with you

I could share your other life

I wish I was your friend

And not your wife.



--- Instrumental ---



The children hardly know you

They just see you now and then

They call you Mr. Daddy

When you come walltzin' in.



To think you'd rather be with friends

Cuts us like a knife

I wish I was your friend

And not your wife.



I wish I was your friend

And not your wife...