Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Texas Trilogy - Bosque County Romance, artist - Michael Martin Murphey. Album song Austinology - Alleys of Austin, in the genre Кантри
Date of issue: 18.10.2018
Record label: Soundly, Wildfire
Song language: English
Texas Trilogy - Bosque County Romance |
Mary Martin was a schoolgirl |
Just seventeen or so |
When she married Billy Archer |
About fourteen years ago |
Not even out of high school |
Folks said it wouldn’t last |
But when you grow up in the country |
You grow up mighty fast |
They married in a hurry |
In March before school was out |
Folks said that she was pregnant |
«Just wait and you’ll find out.» |
It came about that winter |
One gray November morn |
The first of many more to come |
A baby boy was born |
And cattle is their game |
And Archer is the name |
They give to the acres that they own |
If the Brazos don’t run dry |
And the newborn calves don’t die |
Another year from Mary will have flown |
Another year from Mary will have flown |
Now Billy kept what cattle |
His father could afford |
Bouncing across the cactus |
In a 1950 Ford |
The cows were sick and skinny |
And the weed was all that grew |
But Billy kept the place alive |
The only thing he knew |
And Mary cooked the supper |
And Mary scrubbed the clothes |
And Mary busted horses |
And blew the baby’s nose |
And Mary and a shotgun |
Kept the rattlesnakes away |
How she kept on smiling |
No one could ever say |
Now the drought of '57 |
Was a curse upon the land |
No one in Bosque county |
Could give Bill a helping hand |
The ground was cracked and broken |
And the truck was out of gas |
And cows can’t feed on prickly pear |
Instead of growing grass |
Well the weather got the water |
And a snake bite took a child |
And a fire in the old barn |
Took the hay that Bill had piled |
The mortgage got the money |
And the screw worm got the cows |
The years have come for Mary |
She’s waiting for them now |