Mary Queen of Arkansas

Mary Queen of Arkansas

It's not too early for dreamin'

The sky is grown with cloud seed sown

And a bastard's love can be redeeming

Mary, my queen

Your soft hulk is reviving

No, you're not too late to desecrate

The servants are just rising

Well, I'm just a lonely acrobat

The live wire is my trade

I've been a shine boy for your acid brat

And a wharf rat of your state

Mary, my queen

Your blows for freedom are missing

Oh, you're not man enough for me to hate

Or woman enough for kissing

Oh, the big top is for dreamers

We can take the circus

All the way to the border

Oh, and the gallows wait for martyrs

Whose papers are in order

But I was not born to live to die

And you were not born for queenin'

Oh, it's not too late to infiltrate

The servants are just leavin'

Mary queen of Arkansas

Your white skin is deceivin'

You wake and wait, ooh, to lie in bait

And you almost got me believin'

But on your bed, Mary

I can see the shadow of a noose

Oh, I don't understand

How you can hold me so tight

And love me so damn loose

But I know a place

Where we can go, Mary

Where I can get a good job

And start out all over again clean

Oh, I got contacts deep in Mexico

Where the servants have been seen