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Lyle Lovett - Texas Trilogy: Bosque County Romance Lyrics

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  • Mary martin was a schoolgirl
  • Just seventeen or so
  • When she married billy archer
  • About fourteen years ago
  • Not even out of high school
  • Folks said it wouldnt last
  • But when you grow up in the country
  • You grow up mighty fast
  • They married in a hurry
  • In march before school was out
  • Folks said that she was pregnant,
  • Just wait and youll find out.
  • It came about that winter
  • One gray november morn
  • The first of many more to come
  • A baby boy was born
  • And cattle is their game
  • And archer is the name
  • They give to the acres that they own
  • If the brazos dont run dry
  • And the newborn calves dont die
  • Another year from mary will have flown
  • Another year from mary will have flown
  • Now billy kept what cattle
  • His father could afford
  • Bouncing across the cactus
  • In a 1950 ford
  • The cows were sick and skinny
  • And the weed was all that grew
  • But billy kept the place alive
  • The only thing he knew
  • And mary cooked the supper
  • And mary scrubbed the clothes
  • And mary busted horses
  • And blew the babys nose
  • And mary and a shotgun
  • Kept the rattlesnakes away
  • How she kept on smiling
  • No one could ever say
  • Now the drought of 57
  • Was a curse upon the land
  • No one in bosque county
  • Could give bill a helping hand
  • The ground was cracked and broken
  • And the truck was out of gas
  • And cows cant feed on prickly pear
  • Instead of growing grass
  • Well the weather got the water
  • And a snake bite took a child
  • And a fire in the old barn
  • Took the hay that bill had piled
  • The mortgage got the money
  • And the screw worm got the cows
  • The years have come for mary
  • Shes waiting for them now

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