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From the first day school let out each summer
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All the kids would come to our backyard and
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We’d play ball and keep track of our home runs
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And all the boys would do just fine but
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One thing was never known
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I sacrificed my back lot average
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So Mary could make it home
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So Mary could make it home
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So Mary could make it home
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I always hit to the right fielder’s mitt
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So Mary could make it home
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Well Mary was the first girl I ever knew
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To have a paper route
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I taught her how to fold em up and how to throw em out
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And I remember a thousand evenings
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When the rain would start to come
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I’d finish the block and get soaking wet
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So Mary could make it home
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So Mary could make it home
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So Mary could make it home
Fm G A
Well my old Schwin was a rusty sin
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So Mary could 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’s More than anyone did
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And when Mary’s Daddy said 11 O’ Clock
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In that low curfew tone
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Well I missed the ends of more good movies
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So Mary could make it home
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So Mary could make it home
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So Mary could make it home
Fm G A
I missed the end of Gone With The Wind
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So Mary could make it home
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It must have been fifteen years
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Since we had seen each other
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But a few months ago I ran into Mary And we had lunch together
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We laughed and talked and then we cried
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She asked if I would phone
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I lied and said I better not
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So Mary could make it home
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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