Madam and her Might-Have-Been

I had two husbands.

I could have had three -

But my Might-have-been

Was too good for me.

When you grow up the hard way

Sometimes you don't know

What's too good to be true,

Just might be so.

He worked all the time,

Spend his money on me -

First time in my life

I had anything free.

I said, Do you love me?

Or am I mistaken?

You're always giving

And never taking.

He said, Madam, I swear

All I want is you.

Right then and there

I knowed we was through!

I told him, Jackson,

You better leave -

You got some'n else

Up your sleeve:

When you think you got bread

It's always a stone -

Nobody loves nobody

For yourself alone.

He said, In me

You've got no trust.

I said, I don't want

My heart to bust.