Mary Brown
Well my name is Charlie Thomas and I'm as good a man as
you,
and for the love of Mary Brown there's nothing that I won't
do.
Her husband was a banker yet she told me he was cruel,
so I left his body lying in the yard where the roses
grew.
Well, she and I grew up neighbors where the houses looked the
same
and I swear that I loved Mary Brown before I knew her
name
and after she married and he moved her away,
she'd still come back and lay with me like nothing ever
changed.
I know what's wrong and right
What goes around comes around
There ain't nothing that I won't do
for the love of Mary Brown.
Well people like him always looked down on me,
because I've done a little time for armed robbery.
Yeah, but Mary Brown knows I'm from a good family,
she didn't say nothing when she slipped me the backdoor
key.
chorus
At my trial she testified she'd kissed me once or twice
but she swore that was long before she became his wife,
and every time I looked at her she avoided my eyes
and the jury sentenced me to twenty-five years to life.
Now I haven't seen Mary Brown since the trial's end
and she never answers the letters I send
and I hear that she married her husband's best
friend...
but for the love of Mary Brown I'd do it all again.
copyright 1998 Dave Alvin
Bob Vietrogoski, rebel librarian
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