Mary Singletary

[Verse 1]

Spent all last week sneaking around

Looking over my shoulder and peeking around the corners

Sick with worry that God would cut me down

With a grand piano falling like a cartoon from the Warner's

Would you come to a Catholic mass?

Will you be my favorite mourner?

[Chorus]

Mary, Mary Singletary

Father says I must confess

Say my fifteen Hail Marys

Dressed in my Sunday best

[Verse 2]

A funeral on Wednesday I served with Father Sullivan

He sat in the sacristy drinking watered down whisky

Told me “Before you know it, the curtain’s gonna close up

They’ll be putting you in a box, kid, and carrying you away”

Would you come to say farewell?

Would you dare to kneel and pray?

[Chorus]

Mary, Mary Singletary

Father says I must confess

Say my fifteen Hail Marys

Dressed in my Sunday best

[Bridge]

She says even though she’s not perfect, she’s loved

She is adamant that her faith is enough

I read way too far into all of this stuff

I keep confessing that I can’t contain all this lust

[Verse 3]

Well, here I am in my bed and I can hear the church bells

I’m thinking about dying and I’m feeling unwell

TNT, dynamite, blow it all sky high, I might

Light an ACME match and shed my earthen vessel

Will you sing “Make Me a Channel”

Before they ship me straight down to Hell?

[Chorus]

Mary, Mary Singletary

Father says I must confess

Say my fifteen Hail Marys

Dressed in my Sunday best

Mary Singletary

You make my heart content

I say my Hail Marys

Thinking of when we’ll meet next

Singletary

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