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She lived on a curve in the road
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In an old tar paper shack
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On the south side of the town on the wrong side of the tracks
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Sometimes on the way in to town
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We say 'Mama, can we stop and give her a ride?'
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Sometimes we did, but her hands flew from her side
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Wild eye... Crazy... Mary
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Down a long dirt road, past the Parson's place
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Their old blue car, we used to race
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Little country store, with a sign tagged to the side
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Said 'NO L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G ALLOWED'
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Underneath that sign allows congregated quite a crowd
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Take a bottle drink it down, pass it around (drink it down)
Take a bottle drink it down, drink,
(pass it around) pass it around (pass it around)
Take a bottle drink it down, pass it, pass it a, pass it a-around
SI
One night thunder cracked, Mercy backed outside her windowsile
MI
Dreamed I was flying high above the trees, over the hills
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Looked down into the house of Mary
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Terrible thought(?), newspaper covered walls
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and Mary rising up above it all...
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ah... ah...
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Next morning on the way into town,
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Saw some skid marks and followed them around
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over the curb through the fields into the house of Mary
E? D?
That what you fear the most will meet you half way
That what you fear the most will meet you half way
SI LA SOL
Take a bottle drink it down, pass it around (drink it down)
Take a bottle drink it down, pass it a, pass it around
Take a bottle drink it down, pass it a, pass it a, pass it a-around
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