Mary Had A Secret-A Balladeer

[ti:Mary Had A Secret] [ar:A Balladeer] [al:Where Are You, Bambi Woods?] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.94]We met at redhead Mary's house [00:03.26]On a Bible study night [00:06.01] [00:07.57]I heard she was a rebel [00:09.45]Once until she saw the light [00:12.76] [00:14.63]Then in the backseat of a crowded car [00:17.26]After weeks of holding hands [00:19.69] [00:21.38]She was slipping me the tongue [00:24.26]Among her Christian friends [00:26.63] [00:28.51]We could chuckle and talk for hours [00:31.07]And then one night over the phone [00:33.57] [00:35.26]She went and told me her best friend's secret [00:38.07]After she had lowered her tone [00:40.63] [00:41.26]It was all about forgiving all about forgiving [00:44.94]All about forgivingand so [00:47.63] [00:48.13]She thought that God would want me to know [00:52.63] [01:06.51]Her older sisters had both moved out [01:08.94]And her parents were divorced [01:12.38] [01:13.19]Her mother lived in a trailer park [01:15.76]Not big but she had a porch [01:18.63] [01:20.32]And on top of the piano [01:22.26]Laid a cat with evil paws [01:24.21] [01:26.83]Her father he was a proud Nam vet [01:29.39]I think she hardly saw [01:32.27] [01:34.08]We would chuckle and talk for hours [01:36.64]And then one night over the phone [01:39.33] [01:40.77]She went and told me her best friend's secret [01:43.52]After she had lowered her tone [01:46.14] [01:46.77]It was all about forgiving all about forgiving [01:50.46]All about forgiving and so [01:53.27] [01:53.96]She thought that God would want me to know [01:58.27] [02:26.02]We would chuckle and talk for hours [02:28.46]And then one night over the phone [02:31.08] [02:32.64]She went and told me her best friend's secret [02:35.39]After she had lowered her tone [02:38.02] [02:38.58]It was all about forgiving all about forgiving [02:42.33]All about forgiving and so [02:45.21] [02:45.85]All about forgiving all about forgiving [02:49.56]All about forgiving and so [02:51.87] [02:52.69]All about forgiving all about forgiving all about forgiving and so [02:58.94] [02:59.57]She thought that God would want me to know [03:04.25]The old piano she could play so nice [03:06.32]She had later sadly sold [03:08.94] [03:10.44]The money was invested in [03:13.13]The church her husband owned [03:15.94] [03:17.56]She had a kid when I looked her up [03:20.13]And another on the way [03:22.81] [03:24.44]And when we waved our last goodbye [03:26.94]She said that she would pray [03:29.25]Mary Had A Secret - A Balladeer