He Thinks Hell Keep Her Mary Chapin Carpenter Wolf Trap

Taken from the Jubilee: Live at Wolf Trap performance. The sixth single on the album Come On Come On, He Thinks He ll Keep Her, was Carpenter s biggest hit off the album. Written by Carpenter and Don Schlitz, the fastpaced song follows a 36yearold homemaker who leaves her husband, and was inspired by a 1970s series of Geritol commercials in which a man boasts of his wife s seemingly limitless energy and her many accomplishments, then concludes by saying My wife. .. I think I ll keep her.