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Current version of Lyle Lovett Lyrics Texas Trilogy: Bosque County Romance (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/l/lyle-lovett/texas-trilogy-bosque-...) Current version of the lyrics |
Version 1 of Lyle Lovett Lyrics Texas Trilogy: Bosque County Romance (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/l/lyle-lovett/texas-trilogy-bosque-...) Version 1 of the lyrics | |||||||||||
| 1 | Mary Martin was a schoolgirl just seventeen or so | Mary Martin was a schoolgirl, | 1 | |||||||||
| 2 | When she married Billy Archer about fourteen years ago | Just seventeen or so, | 2 | |||||||||
| 3 | Not even out of high school folks said, “It wouldn't last” | When she married Billy Archer | 3 | |||||||||
| 4 | But when you grow up in the country you grow up mighty fast | About fourteen years ago; | 4 | |||||||||
| 5 | Not even out of high school, | 5 | ||||||||||
| 6 | They married in a hurry in March before school was out | Folks said it wouldn't last; | 6 | |||||||||
| 7 | Folks said that she was pregnant "Just wait and you'll find out" | But when you grow up in the country, | 7 | |||||||||
| 8 | It came about that winter one gray November morn | You grow up mighty fast. | 8 | |||||||||
| 9 | The first of many more to come a baby boy was born | They married in a hurry, | 9 | |||||||||
| 10 | In March before school was out, | 10 | ||||||||||
| 11 | And cattle is their game | Folks said that she was pregnant, | 11 | |||||||||
| 12 | And Archer is the name they give to the acres that they own | "Just wait and you'll find out." | 12 | |||||||||
| 13 | Well if the Brazos don't run dry and the newborn calves they don't die | It came about that winter, | 13 | |||||||||
| 14 | Another year from Mary will have flown | One gray November morn, | 14 | |||||||||
| 15 | Another year from Mary will have flown | The first of many more to come, | 15 | |||||||||
| 16 | A baby boy was born. | 16 | ||||||||||
| 17 | And now Billy kept what cattle his daddy could afford | And cattle is their game, | 17 | |||||||||
| 18 | As went bouncing across the cactus in a 1950 ford | And Archer is the name | 18 | |||||||||
| 19 | But the cows were sick and skinny and the weed was all that grew | they give to the acres that they own; | 19 | |||||||||
| 20 | But Billy kept the place alive the only thing he knew | If the Brazos don't run dry, | 20 | |||||||||
| 21 | And the newborn calves don't die, | 21 | ||||||||||
| 22 | And Mary cooked the supper and Mary scrubbed the clothes | Another year from Mary will have flown, | 22 | |||||||||
| 23 | And Mary busted horses and blew the baby's nose | Another year from Mary will have flown. | 23 | |||||||||
| 24 | And Mary and a shotgun kept the rattlesnakes away | Now Billy kept what cattle | 24 | |||||||||
| 25 | And how she kept on smiling no one could ever say | His daddy could afford, | 25 | |||||||||
| 26 | Bouncing across the cactus | 26 | ||||||||||
| 27 | And cattle is their game | in a 1950 Ford; | 27 | |||||||||
| 28 | And Archer is the name they give to the acres that they own | The cows were sick and skinny, | 28 | |||||||||
| 29 | If the Brazos don't run dry and the newborn calves don't die | And the weeds was all that grew, | 29 | |||||||||
| 30 | Another year from Mary will have flown | But Billy kept the place alive, | 30 | |||||||||
| 31 | Another year from Mary will have flown | The only thing he knew. | 31 | |||||||||
| 32 | And Mary cooked the supper, | 32 | ||||||||||
| 33 | Now the drought of '57 was a curse upon the land | And Mary scrubbed the clothes, | 33 | |||||||||
| 34 | No one in Bosque County could give Bill a helping hand | And Mary busted horses, | 34 | |||||||||
| 35 | The ground was cracked and broken and the truck was out of gas | And blew the baby's nose, | 35 | |||||||||
| 36 | And cows can't feed on prickly pear instead of growing grass | And Mary and a shotgun | 36 | |||||||||
| 37 | Kept the rattlesnakes away; | 37 | ||||||||||
| 38 | Well the weather got the water and a snake bite took a child | How she kept on smiling, | 38 | |||||||||
| 39 | And a fire in the old barn took the hay that Bill had piled | No one could ever say. | 39 | |||||||||
| 40 | The mortgage got the money and the screw worm got the cows | Now the drought of '57 | 40 | |||||||||
| 41 | The years have come for Mary, she's waiting for them now | Was a curse upon the land, | 41 | |||||||||
| 42 | No one on Bosque County | 42 | ||||||||||
| 43 | And cattle is their game | Could give Bill a helping hand; | 43 | |||||||||
| 44 | And Archer is the name they give to the acres that they own | The ground was cracked and broken, | 44 | |||||||||
| 45 | If the Brazos don't run dry and the newborn calves they don't die | And the truck was out of gas, | 45 | |||||||||
| 46 | Another year from Mary will have flown | And cows can't feed on prickly pear | 46 | |||||||||
| 47 | Another year from Mary will have flown | instead of growing grass. | 47 | |||||||||
| 48 | Well the weather got the water, | 48 | ||||||||||
| 49 | Six o'clock silence of a new day begin is heard in the small Texas town | And a snake bite took a child, | 49 | |||||||||
| 50 | Like a signal from nowhere the people lived their | And a fire in the old barn | 50 | |||||||||
| 51 | Then up and down moving around | took the hay that Bill had piled; | 51 | |||||||||
| 52 | 'Cause this began to fry and the biscuits to bake | The mortgage got the money, | 52 | |||||||||
| 53 | On the store left the salvation out or you won't take | And the screwworm got the cows, | 53 | |||||||||
| 54 | You open the windows and u turn on the fan | The years have come for Mary, | 54 | |||||||||
| 55 | 'Cause it's harder then hill when the sun hits the ground | She's waiting for them now. | 55 | |||||||||
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