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It was the year of our father
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Nineteen-hundred and seventy-six in JA
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When I first met my Mary, quite contrary to what
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My mother did say
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She was a mountain girl come to Spanish Town
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I was only there for a while
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But when I think back on all the love we shared
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I just can't but help to smile
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We spent one whole long year together
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And at the end, I had to go
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By my Mary's side, I wept and cried
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I'd never been laid so low
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She said, Boy when you first met me
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You were as green as a mango tree
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Hmm, but now you are a man, go back to your land
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But first listen carefully
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You can smoke two pounds of Cali herb by yourself then
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Try to stand on your head
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No matter how high you get, you'll never forget
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The wonders of Mary's bed
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Now my Mary's sweet smell was in my nose
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And her vision, it robbed me blind
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And as I crossed the sea, it occurred to me
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That I left myself behind
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She was my natural mystic, sweet sugarplum
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I still ask, why did I go
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They say your first love is your hardest love
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And I'd have to say that's so
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And it's a day and another day and a way and another way
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Had a family once but they're gone
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Now it don't strike me as weird, there's grey in my beard
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But her words still linger on
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You can smoke two pounds of Cali herb by yourself then
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Try to stand on your head
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No matter how high you get, you'll never forget
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The wonders of Mary's bed
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Now there's nothing for me left here 'cept some broken dreams
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Disappointments, I've had a few
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But there's this place I know where the mangroves grow
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And there's just one thing left to do
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I'll go back to my Mary's bed, plant a kiss on her head
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And pretend that time just stood still
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Then I can live out my life like it should have been
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And the rest will be what it will
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So I went back to the bar where we first met
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Asked the bartender, where could she be
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And as he poured me a beer, he said, last year
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She left this world peacefully
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Then every man in the bar looked at me
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They said, old man don't you see
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That we were all touched by Mary just like you
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Now she lives on in our memories
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And we all can smoke two pounds of Cali herb by ourselves then
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Try to stand on our heads
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No matter how high we get, we'll never forget
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The wonders of Mary's bed
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And we can run two hundred miles through a ganja field until
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All we see is red
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And we can shout it out, were still thinking about
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The wonders of Mary's bed
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And so we sing, jump around sweet Mary
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You know we all have to move along
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You never know what you've got in this cruel world
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Until you realize it's gone
