He Thinks He’ll 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 fast-paced song follows a 36-year-old 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.