Dave Alvin - Mary Brown Lyrics
Dave Alvin(Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI, Administered by Bug Music)Well my name is Charlie Thomas and I'm as good a man as youAnd for the love of Mary Brown there's nothin' that I won't doWell her husband was a banker, yet she told me he was cruelSo I left his body lyin' in the yard where their roses grew.Well she and I grew up neighbors where the houses looked the sameAnd I swear that I loved Mary Brown before I knew her nameAnd after she married and he moved her awayYou know she'd still come back and lay with me like nothin' had ever changed.I know what's what's wrong and rightWhat goes around, comes aroundBut there ain't nothin' that I won't doFor the love of Mary Brown.Well people like him always look down on meBecause I've done a little time for armed robberyYeah, but Mary Brown knows I'm from a good familyAnd she didn't say nothing' when she slipped me the back door key.I know what's wrong and rightWhat goes around comes aroundBut there ain't nothin' that I won't doFor the love of Mary Brown.Well at my trial she testified she kissed me once or twiceBut she swore that was long before she became his wifeAnd every time I looked at her she avoided my eyesAnd the jury sentenced me to twenty-five years to life.Now I haven't seen Mary Brown since the trial's endAnd she never answers the letters that I sendAnd I heard that she married her husband's best friendYeah but for the love of Mary Brown, man I'd do it all again.I know what's wrong and rightWhat goes around, comes aroundBut there ain't nothin' that I won't doFor the love of Mary Brown.
