Just seventeen
Everything that you've seen
It's all there in her eyes

So many years of her poor mama's tears and
Her daddy's sweet lies
There's nobody home

Mary-anne's alone
Almost fully grown
And worrying the why's


Jimmy's been down
He's been out and around and

He knows where it's at
Love to be good if he thought that he could
But it isn't like that

He don't make mistakes
What he makes he takes
Jimmy gets all the breaks

'cause he knows how

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Jimmy loves mary-anne
Jimmy wants to be a man
Jimmy loves mary-anne

She thinks it's alright

She's not alone but

She picks up the phone and hears jimmy say
Mother i'm beat
I'm so sick of the streets

Feel like running away
There's no life here at all
The city seems so small

Sweeter music is calling us away
Let it play


Jimmy loves mary-anne
Jimmy wants to be a man
Jimmy loves mary-anne

She thinks it's alright

This big dollar town can drag you right down

If you go it alone
Even the strong don't survive very long
When they're out on their own

Jimmy knows it's true
Mary-anne knows it too
They can see each other through

If they hold on

Jimmy loves mary-anne

Jimmy wants to be a man
Jimmy loves mary-anne
She thinks it's alright


Jimmy loves mary-anne
Jimmy wants to be a man

Jimmy loves mary-anne
She thinks it's alright