Mary Canary

Story Behind The Song

"Mary Canary" was one of those awesomely talented singers who used to terrorize the rest of us whenever she'd show up at the local coffeehouse open mic nights

Song Description

I could hear Van Morrison doing this one, (better than me, most likely).

Song Length 2:34 Genre Rock - General, Rock - Modern
Tempo Medium Slow (91 - 110) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Language English Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

Mary Canary sings so clean
Wears a black thong under her schoolgirl jeans
And I don't know how she can be so sweet
When I'm so mean

Mary Canary's heart is pure
And she takes me back to the way things were
And I always feel like the Antichrist
When I'm next to her

And I tell myself when she plays that card
Takes me right back down to the old schoolyard
Hard to believe there was once a time
I was not so scarred

Saturday night out on Moonlight Row
I'll be hunkered down in this place I go
Where they play those songs that you might not know
From your radio

Mary Canary will weave her spell
Like a cheerful thrush in a small town cell
And she may not know what she don't know
Lord, but it's just as well

And I tell myself when she plays that card
Takes me right back down to the old schoolyard
Hard to believe there was once a time
I was not so scarred

Mary Canary, one day you're
Gonna wonder how you could be so sure
And I always fell like the Antichrist
When I'm next to her

And I tell myself .......

Lyrics Philip James Fox Music Philip James Fox
Producer Scott Watkins Publisher Philip James Fox
Performance Philip James Fox

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