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 you
And for the love of Mary Brown there’s nothin’ that I won’t do
Well her husband was a banker, yet she told me he was cruel
So I left his body lyin’ in the yard where their 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
You know she’d still come back and lay with me like nothin’ had ever changed.
I know what’s what’s wrong and right
What goes around, comes around
But there ain’t nothin’ that I won’t do
For the love of Mary Brown.
Well people like him always look down on me
Because I’ve done a little time for armed robbery
Yeah, but Mary Brown knows I’m from a good family
And she didn’t say nothing’ when she slipped me the back door key.
I know what’s wrong and right
What goes around comes around
But there ain’t nothin’ that I won’t do
For the love of Mary Brown.
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Well at my trial she testified she 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 that I send
And I heard that she married her husband’s best friend
Yeah but for the love of Mary Brown, man I’d do it all again.
I know what’s wrong and right
What goes around, comes around
But there ain’t nothin’ that I won’t do
For the love of Mary Brown.
