[ar:Dave Alvin]
[ti:Mary Brown]
[al:Live From Austin TX]
[00:06.42]Well my name is Charlie Thomas
[00:08.24]And I'm as good a man as you
[00:13.21]And for the love of Mary Brown
[00:15.01]There's nothin' that I won't do
[00:18.29]Well her husband was a banker,
[00:20.20]Yet she told me he was cruel
[00:23.41]So I left his body lyin' in the yard
[00:27.03]Where their roses grew.
[00:34.41]Well she and I grew up neighbors
[00:36.19]Where the houses looked the same
[00:39.72]And I swear that I loved Mary Brown
[00:42.14]Before I knew her name
[00:46.72]And after she married and he moved her away
[00:51.77]You know she'd still come back and lay with me
[00:53.23]Like nothin' bad ever changed.
[01:00.03]I know what's wrong and right
[01:04.34]What goes around, comes around
[01:09.93]But there ain't nothin' that I won't do
[01:14.47]For the love of Mary Brown.
[01:27.48]Well people like him always look down on me
[01:34.29]'Cause I've done a little time for armed robbery
[01:39.02]Yeah, but Mary Brown knows I'm from a good family
[01:45.07]And she didn't say nothin'
[01:47.00]When she slipped me the back door key.
[01:54.06]I know what's wrong and right
[01:46.62]What goes around comes around
[02:03.79]But there ain't nothin' that I won't do
[02:07.69]For the love of Mary Brown.
[02:33.33]Well at my trial she testified
[02:35.03]She kissed me once or twice
[02:39.71]But she swore that was long
[02:42.00]Before she became his wife
[02:46.58]And every time I looked at her
[02:49.09]She avoided my eyes
[02:52.42]And the jury sentenced me
[02:54.18]To twenty-five years to life.
[03:01.42]Now I haven't seen Mary Brown
[03:03.05]Since the trial's end
[03:07.38]And she never answers the letters that I send
[03:12.14]But she knew that I heard that she married
[03:15.35]Her hushand's best friend
[03:19.02]Yeah but for the love of Mary Brown,
[03:22.42]Man I'd do it all again.
[03:28.31]I know what's wrong and right
[03:32.06]What goes around, comes around
[03:37.63]But there ain't nothin' that I won't do
[03:42.24]For the love of Mary Brown.
[03:47.24]But there ain't nothin' that I won't do
[03:53.66]For the love of Mary Brown.