Take A Message To Mary. Everly Brothers.

Seq - Ron Tilden. Kar - Bunty Pritchard Jones. July 2003.

Take A Message To Mary
Words and Music by: Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant
Performed by: The Everly Brothers (1959)
Sequenced by: Ron Tilden

These are the words of a frontier lad,
Who lost his love when he turned bad.

Take a message to Mary but don't tell her where I am,
Take a message to Mary but don't say I'm in a jam.

You can tell her I had to see the world,
or tell her that my ship set sail.

You can say she'd better not wait for me,
but don't tell her I'm in jail.
Oh, don't tell her I'm in jail.

Take a message to Mary but don't tell her what I've done,
Please don't mention the stagecoach
and the shot from a careless gun.

You can tell her I had to change my plans
and cancel out the wedding day,

But please don't mention my lonely cell,
where I'm gonna pine away
Until my dying day.

Take a message to Mary but don't tell her all you know,
My heart's aching for Mary, Lord knows I miss her so.

Just tell her I went to Timbuktu,
tell her I'm searching for gold.

You can say she'd better find someone new
to cherish and to hold.
Oh, Lord, this cell is cold.

Maary, Maaaaary,
Oh, Lord, this cell is cold.

Take A Message To Mary
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