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Down in Mary’s Land Lyrics by Mary Chapin Carpenter

State of the Heart

1989

[Verse 1]
Fields of green by the side of the road
Going down to Mary's Land
Roll down the window feel the cool of a grove
Hit the palm of your outstretched hand
Radio's playing a tune from the country
Fiddle and an old time band
Race with the moon to the edge of the water
Down in Mary's Land, down in Mary's Land
[Verse 2]
East of Virginia where the bay meets a river
Down in Mary's Land
The wind pulls your sleeve like a long lost lover
Whose heart can't understand
How you ever could leave the view you behold
Ain't it fine and ain't life grand
When you don't need nothing
But some beer and a bushel
Down in Mary's Land
[Chorus]
Gonna to sleep with the stars and a slice of the moon
Hanging right above my bed
Gonna to dream not of things that I've left behind
But those I've found instead
Down in Mary's Land
[Verse 3]
Radio's playing a tune from the country
Fiddle and an old time band
Race with the moon to the edge of the water
Down in Mary's Land
[Chorus]
Gonna to sleep with the stars and a slice of the moon
Hanging right above my bed
Gonna to dream not of things that I've left behind
But those I've found instead
Down in Mary's Land
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Mary Chapin Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter

About “Down in Mary’s Land” by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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"Down in Mary’s Land" is credited to Mary Chapin Carpenter. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Down in Mary’s Land" appears on "State of the Heart" in 1989.

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