Mary Skeffington,
Close your eyes
And make believe that you
Are just a girl again.
Go to sleep tonight,
Dream of days,
When you had something there
To light the way.

Remember a harder day
In a north of England town,
You slept in a room upstairs
On a bed of eiderdown.

Mary Skeffington,
When you wake
You mustn't be afraid
To face another day.
Think of what you have,
You'll get by,
You've always been a lady,
Hold your head up high.

Look back on your home where you
Spent the best years of your life,
Remember the man who asked you
If you would be his wife.

Mary Skeffington,
Close your eyes
And make believe that you
Are just a girl again.
Go to sleep tonight,
Dream of days,
When you had something there
To light the way.

Mary Skeffington
Words and Music by:  Gerry Rafferty
Performed by:  Gerry Rafferty  (1971)
Also Performed by:  Olivia Newton John  (1972)
Sequence and Karaoke by:  Ron Tilden

Mary Skeffington
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