Crazy Mary - Victoria Williams

She lived on a curve in the road

In an old tar-paper shack

On the south side of the town

On the wrong side of the tracks

Sometimes on the way into town we’d say

«Mama, can we stop and give her a ride?»

Sometimes we did as she shook her head

And her hands flew from her side

Wild eyed, crazy Mary

Down along the road, past the Parson’s place

The old blue car we used to race

Little country store with a sign tacked to the side

Said, «No L O I T E R I N G allowed»

Underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

One night thunder cracked mercy backed outside her windowsill

Dreamed I was flying high above the trees, over the hills

Looked down into the house of Mary

Bare bulb blown, newspaper-covered walls

And Mary rising up above it all

Next morning on the way into town

We saw some skid marks, and followed them around

Over the curve, through the fields

Into the house of Mary

That what you fear the most

Could meet you halfway

That what you fear the most

Could meet you halfway

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

Around, around, around, around

Where she stops no, no, nobody knows

No, nobody knows, nobody knows

Nobody knows, no, nobody knows