SO MARY COULD MAKE IT HOME
(Don Reid)


The Statler Brothers - 1974


From the first day school let out each summer all the kids would come
To our backyard and we'd play ball and keep count of our home runs
And all the boys would do just fine, but one thing was never known
I sacrificed my backlot average so Mary could make it home
So Mary could make it home, so Mary could make it home
I always hit to the right fielder's mitt so Mary could make it home

Well, Mary was the first girl I ever knew to have a paper route
I taught her how to fold 'em up and how to throw 'em out
And I remember a thousand evenings when the rain would start to come
And I'd finish the block and get soaking wet so Mary could make it home
So Mary could make it home, so Mary could make it home
Well my old Schwinn was a rusty sin so Mary could make it home

Well, I held hands and carried books like all the other kids
But I held and carried Mary's more than anyone did
And when Mary's Daddy said, "Eleven O'Clock" in that low curfew tone
Well I missed the ends of more good movies so Mary could make it home
So Mary could make it home, so Mary could make it home
I missed the end of 'Gone With The Wind' so Mary could make it home

It must have been fifteen years since we had seen each other
But a few months ago I ran into Mary and we had lunch together
We laughed and talked and then we cried, she asked if I would phone
I lied and said I better not so Mary could make it home
So Mary could make it home, so Mary could make it home
Now the love we steal is short, but real, so Mary can make it home
So Mary can make it home



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2020)