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Thread #9263   Message #3005696
Posted By: Joe Offer
13-Oct-10 - 12:07 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Mary Skeffington (Gerry Rafferty)
Subject: Lyr Add: MARY SKEFFINGTON (Gerry Rafferty)
Can somebody post the complete lyrics for this song?

-Joe-
Oh, I found them, and verified them by listening to the recording.

MARY SKEFFINGTON
(Gerry Rafferty)

Mary Skeffington, close your eyes
I may believe (??) that you are just a girl again
Go to sleep tonight, dream of days
When you had something there to light the way

Remember a holiday in a north-of-England town
You slept in a room upstairs on a bed of eiderdown

Mary Skeffington, when you wake
You mustn't be afraid to face another day
Think of what you have, you'll get by
You've always been a lady, so hold your head up high

Look back on a home where you spent the best years of your life
Remember the man who asked you if you would be his wife

Mary Skeffington, close your eyes
I may believe that you are just a girl again
Go to sleep tonight, dream of days
When you had something there to light the way

The transcription I found online says I may believe in the first and last verses, and that's what I hear - but and make believe would make a lot more sense.

Source: http://www.lyrics007.com/Rafferty%20Gerry%20Lyrics/Mary%20Skeffington%20Lyrics.html