I know someday very soon
You are going to go
You hid away your walking shoes

Your loss would hurt me so
Well put them on and lace them up
You need to understand

I was only fooling Mary Ann

There's an old hazy moon

Floating through July
Alone in an open field
I thought I'd soon die

Well I shivered till the sun came up
Till you took my hand
I was only fooling Mary Ann


I was only fooling
When I said be my wife

Fooling when I thanked God
That you'd come into my life
Forever and a day I'd love you

You didn't understand
I was only fooling Mary Ann