Calling Mary Names

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I used to get in trouble with my momma and daddy

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For calling Mary names


More than once I got a sore sit me down

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For calling Mary names


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But little girls just didn’t fit in

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With little boys playing cowboys and Indians

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Every night’s a stolen game

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For calling Mary names



No telling how many times I had to stay after school

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For calling Mary names


Wore out the blackboard writing I’m a bad boy

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For calling Mary names


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She couldn’t play baseball she couldn’t ride a bike

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In fact she couldn’t play any games little boys liked

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I was always getting the blame

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For calling Mary names


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Then we started growing up  then we were in our teens

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Then something started showing up  that I had never seen

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All of a sudden one day I looked and Mary sure had changed

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Seems like it happened all overnight and Mary was rearranged


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Ah but that all happened so long ago

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You see Mary’s my wife now and I just love her so

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But one thing sure hasn’t changed

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I’m still calling Mary names like darling then sweetheart

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Then baby I love you calling Mary names