Along Comes Mary

(Tandyn Almer)

[promo copies co-credit Curt Boettcher]

Jim Yester, in the liner notes to the Japanese _From The Original Master

Tapes_ CD (Warner/Pioneer WPCP-3536):

This was the first national hit for the group, and established the

"sound" of THE ASSOCIATION. So unique was the arrangement that it was

explored in depth on a television special by Leonard Bernstein.

[rhythm guitar plays xxxx55 (implicit Am/D9) on beats 2 and 4]

[fuzz guitar (left channel) doubled with electric bass; clean guitar

(right channel) plays octave higher, doubled with acoustic bass]:

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^^^^^^^ right channel only

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x02210 x04432 x02213 x04432 <- left channel

xxx555 xxx777 xxx988 xxx777 <- right channel

Verse 1:

Everytime I think that I'm the only one who's lonely

someone calls on me

And every now and then I spend my time at rhyme and verse and curse

those faults in me

Chorus 1:

And then along comes Mary

And does she wanna give me kicks and be my steady chick

And give me pick of memories

Or maybe rather gather tales from all the fails and tribulations

Noone ever sees

[N.C.]

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When we met I was sure out to lunch

Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

[3: to coda]

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x04434 x04435

Verse 2:

When vague desire is the fire in the eyes of chicks whose sickness

is the games they play

And when the masquerade is played the neighbor folks make jokes

at who is most to blame today

Chorus 2:

And then along comes Mary

And does she wanna set 'em free and let 'em see reality

From where she got her name

And will they struggle much when told that such a tender touch of hers

Will make them not the same

When we met I was sure out to lunch

Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

 

Verse 3:

And when the morning of the warning's passed the gassed and flaccid

kids are flung across the stars

The psychodramas and the traumas gone, the songs are left unsung

and hung upon the scars

Chorus 3:

And then along comes Mary

And does she wanna see the stains, the dead remains of all the pains

She left the night before

Or will their waking eyes reflect the lies and make them realize

Their urgent cry for sight no more

When we met I was sure out to lunch

Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

Coda:

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Sweet as the punch (sweet as the punch)

Sweet as the punch (sweet as the punch)

Sweet as the punch (sweet as the punch)

Am [end cold]

Sweet as the punch

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers