Lyrics

Well my wife she knows I love music 
And she knows that I write songs
She said "Why don’t you write one for the girls 
So that we can sing along
Better still - Why don't I write one? I really think I can!” 
She started singing right out loud she called it  
The Maintenance Man

Chorus
Oh the Maintenance Man, the Maintenance Man  
He cleans up ‘round the house
He does whatever his wife wants he’ll catch that little mouse
Well he never gets distracted and he always gets things done
Well the maintenance Man, the Maintenance Man  
Every women should have one

Well I thought that was kind of creative, it was funny and it was fun
I told her she was really good and that she should just go on
Well she laughed out loud and smiled at me her story would be told
She started singing once again - she was going for the “gold”

She said the Maintenance Man, the Maintenance Man  
He cleans up ‘round the house
He’ll fix up that old creaky door, he’ll catch that little mouse
Well he straitens up the ceiling tiles he'll patch that holey wall
Oh the Maintenance Man, the Maintenance Man he loves to do it all

I thought it was kind of a coincidence it sounded a bit like home
All the things that we needed fixin’  were written in her song
When she touched my hand and smiled at me I knew that I’d been had
The Maintenance Man that was in her song well his name was “Dad”

Oh the Maintenance Man, the Maintenance Man  
He cleans up ‘round the house
He does whatever his wife wants he’ll catch that little mouse
Well he never gets distracted and he always gets things done
Oh the maintenance Man, the Maintenance Man  
Every women should have one

Epilogue…

Now I mend our fences and I fix our creaky doors
I made her work into my play - now I do up all her chores
For a happy wife is a happy life - is that not what they say?
I’m a Maintenance Man, the Maintenance Man Until my dying day
Oh the Maintenance Man, the Maintenance Man  
He cleans up ‘round the house
He does whatever his wife wants he’ll catch that little mouse
Well he never gets distracted and he always gets things done
Well the maintenance Man, the Maintenance Man  
Every women should have one
I’m the Maintenance Man, the Maintenance Man until my dying day