Bob Seger

Songwriter: Young Jessie Saul Bihari

Producer: Bob Seger Punch Andrews

[Verse 1]
I'm gonna tell you a story 'bout Mary Lou
You know the kind of woman make a fool of you
She make a young man itch, she make an old man faint
The way she took my money was a cryin' shame

[Chorus]
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
She took my watch and chain
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
She took my diamond ring
Mary Lou
She took the keys to my Cadillac car
Jumped in my kitty, drove off far

[Verse 2]
Left me stranded in Kalamazoo
Makin' her fortune off a fool like you
She married a rich man, had a dozen kids
Drove that cat until he flipped his lid

[Chorus]
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
She took my diamond ring
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
She took everything
Mary Lou
She took the keys to my Cadillac car
Jumped in my kitty, drove off far

[Verse 3]
Come back into town about a week ago
Told me she was sorry that she hurt me so
I had a fifty-five Ford and a two dollar bill
The way she looked at that man gave me a chill

[Chorus]
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
Took my diamond ring
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
She took my watch and chain
Mary Lou
She took the keys to my Cadillac car
Jumped in my kitty, drove off far
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
She took my diamond ring
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
She took everything
Mary Lou
Took the keys to my Cadillac car
Jumped in my kitty, drove off far

[Outro]
Ah, drove off far
Drove off far
Drove off far
Oh, kept on driving that car
She took everything I had, stuck it in that car
Yeah, jumped in my kitty, drove off far

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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