The Statler Brothers – So Mary Could Make it Home lyrics

From the first day school let out each summer
All the kids would come to our backyard and
We’d play ball and keep track of our home runs
And all the boys would do just fine but
One thing was never known
I sacrificed my back lot 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
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 Schwin 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 11 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