So Mary Could Make It Home chords by The Statler Brothers
Verse 1
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From the first
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day school let out each summer,
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all the kids would come to our backyard
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and we'd play ball and keep
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count of our home runs.
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And all the boys would do just fine,
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but one thing was never known
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I sacrificed my backlot average,
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so Mary couldn't make it home
So Mary couldn't make it home,
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so Mary couldn't make it home
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I always hit to the
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right fielder's mitt,
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so Mary couldn't make it
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home
Well, Mary was the first girl
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I ever knew to have a paper route
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I taught her how to fold them up
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and how to throw them out
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And I remember a thou
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sand evenings
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when the rain would start to come
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I'd finish the block
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and get soaking wet
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so Mary could make it home
So Mary couldn't make it home,
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So Mary couldn't make it home,
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Well, my old Schwinn was a rusty sin,
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So Mary couldn't make it home
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Well, I held hands and carried books
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like all the other kids
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But I held and carried Mary
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more than anyone did
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And when Mary's dead he said,
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eleven o 'clock
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In that low curfew tone
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Well, I've missed the ends
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of more good movies
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So Mary could make it home
So Mary could make it home
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So Mary could make it home
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Well, I've missed the en
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d of Gone with the Wind
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So Mary could make it home
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It must have been fif teen years
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Since we had seen each other
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But a few months ago, I ran into Mary
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and we had lunch together
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We laughed and talked
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and then we cried
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She asked if I would phone
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I lied and said I'd better not
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So Mary could make it home
So Mary could make it home
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So Mary could make it home
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Now the love we steal is short but real
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So Mary can make it home,
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so Mary can make it home
Outro 1
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So Mary Could Make It Home
The Statler Brothers
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