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Mary Brown - Dave Alvin

Well my name is Charlie Thomas

And I'm as good a man as you

And for the love of Mary Brown

There's nothin' that I won't do

Well her husband was a banker

Yet she told me he was cruel

So I left his body lyin' in the yard

Where their roses grew

Well she and I grew up neighbors

Where the houses looked the same

And I swear that I loved Mary Brown

Before I knew her name

And after she married and he moved her away

You know she'd still come back and lay with me

Like nothin' had ever changed

I know what's what's wrong and right

What goes around comes around

But there ain't nothin' that I won't do

For the love of Mary Brown

Well people like him always look down on me

Because I've done a little time for armed robbery

Yeah but Mary Brown knows I'm from a good family

And she didn't say nothing'

When she slipped me the back door key

I know what's wrong and right

What goes around comes around

But there ain't nothin' that I won't do

For the love of Mary Brown

Well at my trial she testified

She kissed me once or twice

But she swore that was long

Before she became his wife

And every time I looked at her

She avoided my eyes

And the jury sentenced me

To twenty-five years to life

Now I haven't seen Mary Brown

Since the trial's end

And she never answers the letters that I send

And I heard that she married her husband's best friend

Yeah but for the love of Mary Brown

Man I'd do it all again

I know what's wrong and right

What goes around comes around

But there ain't nothin' that I won't do

For the love of Mary Brown

But there ain't nothin' that I won't do

For the love of Mary Brown