Tuesday, January 17, 2012

mary's corner store / from the album..."ship harbor"

mary owned a corner store
sold cigarettes and pie
chocolate bars to little kids
whole wheat bread and rye

mary owned a corner store
the screen door had a bell
she stole it from the neighbors cow
but no one would ever tell

mary had a corner store
mary liked her rum
blind drunk by 10 every day
stone cold drunk by one

a stranger once came into town
and into mary's store
cracked a joke about her afterwards
he don't come round no more

mary is an alcoholic
mary is a drunk
mary lost her little boy
to some ass hole in a truck

mary cries between customers
staring at a stolen cow bell
and if she ever made a slight request
she'd get the cow as well

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