Calling Mary Names Song Lyrics and Chords by Eddy Arnold
Calling Mary Names
Recorded by Eddy Arnold
Written by Wayne Carson Thompson
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I used to get in trouble with my momma and daddy
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calling
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Mary
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More than once I got a sore sit me down
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But
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little girls just
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didn't fit in
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little boys playing
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Every night's a stolen game
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No telling how many times I had to stay after school
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Wore out the blackboard writing I'm a bad boy
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She couldn't play basebal
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l she couldn't ride a bike
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fact she couldn't play an
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y games little boys liked
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I was always getting the blame
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names
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Then we started growing up
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then we were in our
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teens
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Then something started showing up
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that I had never seen
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All of a sudden one day I looked and
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sure had
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changed
Seems like it happened all overnight and
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Mary
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was
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rranged
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but that all happened so
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long
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You see Mary's my wife now an
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d I just love her so
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But one thing sure hasn't changed
I'm stil
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y names like darling the
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sweetheart
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baby I
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love you calling
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Calling Mary Names?
- The song Calling Mary Names was sang by Eddy Arnold.
Who is Eddy Arnold?
- Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 - May 8, 2008) was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (beginning 1966), Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music."
