Written: Highway 666, Southern Colorado, fall 1971
This song came to Knees as he was driving back from Cortez CO after playing with Smoky Stover’s band at a C&W dive. Loosely based on Buffalo Springfield’s Mr. Soul it was always a popular song in the bars, even though (or maybe because) deep down it’s a paean to pedophilia. Knees always wondered why no one in R&R ever used the obvious “Mary wanna” pun in a song before.
Hi hello Mary, creepin up into your teens
Does your momma an your poppa
Know you got such tight little genes?
An does your big sister
Tell you what she do with me?
Does Mary wanna take a chance,
Does Mary wanna set herself free?
Hi hello Mary, you love your loud rock & roll
I can feed you goodies,
All your little mind can hold
An does your big sister
Tell you what she got in her bag?
Does Mary wanna take a chance,
Does Mary wanna take a drag?
Hi hello Mary, livin can be such a ball
Sometimes it’s like flyin,
Sometimes it’s like havin to crawl
An does your big sister
Tell you bout goin down?
Does Mary wanna take a chance,
Does Mary wanna come around?