Miss Mary

Lyrics

Angels announce you with trumpets

Crown you with jewels and stars

Hercules lives

Next door to Venus and Mars

Beside your pretty blue shoulder

Something may trouble Jerome

Now that you're up with your friends

I know you'll never come home

Singing so babe, I know this song

Miss Mary I'm nothing without you

Everything I've done is wrong

Miss Mary I'll try not to doubt you

I walk in their brilliant parade

Banish the primitive gloom

Now I know where I can find you

Hung up in some Frenchman's room

Pitiful Magdelena for all to see

Must have been beautiful

So just show a little mercy to me

Singing hey babe, I sing this song

Miss Mary I'm nothing without you

Everything I've done is wrong

Miss Mary I try not to doubt you

There at the foot of your staircase

I stood to take in the scene

All the ashes of roses

The veined steps of marble

Purple, gold and green

Oh I wish you were my queen

They only want to possess you

Lock you away in a vault

Such a heavenly vision

And dress you up in blue

I guess it's not their fault

I know this song

Miss Mary I'm nothing without you

Everything I've done is wrong

Miss Mary I'll try not to doubt you

So babe, I sing this song

Miss Mary you're my queen of heaven

Everything I've done is wrong

Miss Mary will I be forgiven

Credits

• Words by: Elvis Costello
  Music by: Zucchero Fornaciari

Discography

• unreleased by Elvis Costello

Covers

Recorded by:

• Zucchero, on Miserere, 1992
  

also available on Songs Of Elvis Costello: Bespoke Songs, Lost Dogs, Detours & Rendezvous, 1998

Bootlegs

• none
• This section may be incomplete.