A clean up woman is a woman who
Gets all the love we girls leave behind
The reason I know so much about her
Is because she picked up a man of mine

Chumpin' slick was my ruin 
'Cause, I found out all I was doin'
Was making it easy for the clean up woman 
To get my man's love, oh yeah
Just making it easy for the clean up woman 
To get my baby's love, uh-huh, um-hum

I took this man's love and put it a shelf 
And like a fool I thought I had him all to myself

When you needed love I was out having fun
But I found out that all I had done 
Was made it easy for the clean up woman
To get my man's love, uh-huh 
Yeah, that's what I did, I made it easy for the clean up woman 
To steal my baby's love, oh yeah

The clean up woman will wipe his blues away
She'll give him plenty lovin' 24 hours a day
The clean up woman, she'll sweep him off his feet 
She's the one who'll take him in when you dump him in the street
So take a tip, you better get hip 
To the clean up woman 'cause she's tough 
I mean, she really cleans up