Take a husband who enjoys other women take a wife that's left alone a lot   Take a paycheck that's been all spent on liquior   That's the recipe for marriage on the rocks   See a wife that's starvin' for his lovin'   He takes for granted the best things life has got   Take his whiskey and mix it with my teardrops   That's the recipe for marriage on the rocks   [ steel ]   He can nightspot that's got too fast us women   And you'll find him hangin' round there like as not   He don't know what's inside that glass he's holdin'   That's the recipe for marriage on the rocks   See a wife that's starvin'...   That's the recipe for marriage on the rocks