The lights shine down the valley
The wind blows up the alley
Oh how I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary

She took the pains of boyhood
And turned them into feel good
Oh how I wish I were lying in the arms of Mary

Mary was the girl who taught me all I had to know
She put me right on my first mistake
Summer wasn't gone when
I’d learned all she had to show
She really gave all a boy could take

So now when I feel lonely
Still looking for the one and only
That's when I wish I were lying in the arms of Mary

Mary was the girl who taught me all I had to know
She put me right on my first mistake
Summer wasn't gone when
I’d learned all she had to show
She really gave all a boy could take