Arms of Mary (1976)    (midi)

 

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1.   The lights shine down the valley,    the wind blows up the ally,

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    oh, well, I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary.

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    She took the pains of boyhood,    and turned them into feel good,

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    oh, how I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary.

 

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Mary was the girl who taught me all I had to know,

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she put me right on my first mistake.

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Sommer was so good when I learned all she had to show,

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she really gave all a boy could take.

 

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2.   So now when  I  get lonely,    still looking for the one and only,

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    that`s when I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary.  

 

+ CHORUS

 

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3.   The lights shine down the valley,   the wind blows up the ally,

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    oh, well, I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary,

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    lying in the arms of Mary, lying in the arms of Mary....

 

(repeat and fade)

 

    (Sutherland Brothers)