Released: June 26, 2007
Songwriter: Victoria Williams
She lived on the curve in the road
In an old tar paper shack
On the south side of the town
On the wrong side of the tracks
Sometimes on the way into town
We'd say, "Mama can we stop and give her a ride?"
Sometimes we did
But her hands flew from her side
Wild eyed
Crazy Mary
Down the long dirt road
Past the Parson’s place
That old blue car
We used to race
Little country store with a sign tacked to the side
Said 'NO L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G ALLOWED.'
Underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around
Take a bottle drink it down. Drink it... Pass it around. Pass it a...
A-take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass it around
One night thunder cracked
Mercy backed outside my windowsill
Dreamed I was flying
High above the trees, over the hills
Looked down into the house of Mary
Bare bulb hung, newspaper covered walls
And Mary rising up above it all
Oh... Oh... Oh...
Next morning on the way into town
Saw some skid marks and followed them around
Over the curve
Through the fields
Into the house of Mary
That what you fear the most could meet you halfway. (x2)
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it around. Pass it a...
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass it around
Oh, pass it a... Pass it around. Pass it a... Pass it a... Pass it a...
Oh yeah
In an old tar paper shack
On the south side of the town
On the wrong side of the tracks
Sometimes on the way into town
We'd say, "Mama can we stop and give her a ride?"
Sometimes we did
But her hands flew from her side
Wild eyed
Crazy Mary
Down the long dirt road
Past the Parson’s place
That old blue car
We used to race
Little country store with a sign tacked to the side
Said 'NO L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G ALLOWED.'
Underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around
Take a bottle drink it down. Drink it... Pass it around. Pass it a...
A-take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass it around
One night thunder cracked
Mercy backed outside my windowsill
Dreamed I was flying
High above the trees, over the hills
Looked down into the house of Mary
Bare bulb hung, newspaper covered walls
And Mary rising up above it all
Oh... Oh... Oh...
Next morning on the way into town
Saw some skid marks and followed them around
Over the curve
Through the fields
Into the house of Mary
That what you fear the most could meet you halfway. (x2)
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it around. Pass it a...
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass it around
Oh, pass it a... Pass it around. Pass it a... Pass it a... Pass it a...
Oh yeah
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- Rockin’ In The Free World [July 22, 2006]
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- Fuckin’ Up [July 23, 2006]
- Corduroy [July 23, 2006]
- Porch [July 22, 2006]
- Leash [July 22, 2006]
- Gone [July 22, 2006]
- Black [July 22, 2006]
- Insignificance [July 22, 2006]
- Life Wasted [July 22, 2006]
- Blood [July 22, 2006]
- Footsteps [July 22, 2006]
- Once [July 22, 2006]
- Alive [July 22, 2006]
- State of Love and Trust [July 22, 2006]
- Crown of Thorns [July 22, 2006]
- World Wide Suicide [July 23, 2006]
- Gods’ Dice [July 23, 2006]
- Why Go [July 23, 2006]
- I Won’t Back Down [July 23, 2006]
- Life Wasted [July 23, 2006]
- Big Wave [July 23, 2006]
- Satan’s Bed [July 23, 2006]
- Spin The Black Circle [July 23, 2006]
- Alive [July 23, 2006]
- Given To Fly [July 23, 2006]
- Crazy Mary [July 23, 2006]
- Comatose [July 23, 2006]
- Jeremy [July 23, 2006]
- Whipping [July 23, 2006]
- Animal [July 23, 2006]
- Do The Evolution [July 23, 2006]
- In Hiding [July 23, 2006]
- Green Disease [July 23, 2006]
- Even Flow [July 23, 2006]
- Marker In The Sand [July 23 2006]
- Wasted Reprise [July 23, 2006]
- Army Reserve [July 23, 2006]
- Garden [July 23, 2006]
- Rats [July 23, 2006]
- Yellow Ledbetter/The Star-Spangled Banner [July 23, 2006]
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- Last Exit [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Save You [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Do The Evolution [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Sad [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Even Flow [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Not For You [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Corduroy [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Dissident [Sept. 1st 2005]
- MFC [Sept. 1st. 2005]
- Alone [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Given To Fly [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Hard To Imagine [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Little Wing [July 23, 2006]
- Baba O Riley [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Better Man / Save It For Later [July 23, 2006]
- I Won’t Back Down [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Off He Goes [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Low Light [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Man Of The Hour [Sept. 1st 2005]
- I Am Mine [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Black [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Undone [Sept. 1st. 2005]
- Daughter [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Yellow Ledbetter [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Wash [July 22, 2006]
- Corduroy [July 22, 2006]
- Hail Hail [July 22, 2006]
- World Wide Suicide [July 22, 2006]
- Severed Hand [July 22, 2006]
- Given To Fly [July 22, 2006]
- Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town [July 22, 2006]
- Even Flow [July 22, 2006]
- Down [July 22, 2006]
- Crazy Mary [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Blood [Sept. 1st 2005]
- In My Tree [Sept. 1st. 2005]
- State of Love and Trust [Sept. 1st. 2005]
- Alive [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Porch [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Love Boat Captain [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Insignificance [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Better Man [Sept. 1st 2005]
- Rearviewmirror [Sept. 1st 2005]
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