{CHAR}
Maryann's fat lip is drying
The bastard's bacon frying
The shiner round her eye gone bust and bleeding
He shouts

{CHAR/CONNOR}
"Girl, set the table!"

{CHAR}
But he knows she ain't able
Her arm's done broke
Hung limp like yoke
And softly she's repeating...

{CHAR/MARYANN}
"Leave Maryann
Why don't you march out that door?
Woman, he ain't no good to you
Leave Maryann
The southern states want war
But it's you dying out here in New York"

{CHAR}
And yet, loyal Maryann remains
Ever since she said no to him
His sanity just made off
No, he was never nice but now he's cruel
He rapes her and he beats her
She don't 'fess how he treats her
Cause a bible verse says it won't get worse and she won't be a fool
You won't ever leave Maryann
Cause if you walk out that door, his truck will be gunning for you
No, you won't leave Maryann or he'll give you what for
You got heart where you shoulda had brains
And so loyal Maryann remains
Someone's howling
Screams like sighing with battered breath
Grating, growling, never dying
In a fate worse than death
But years of such conditions
Turn laymen to logicians
And tonight the bastard's sleeping like a log
So she plucks the kitchen cleaver
Creeps toward his roped up lap retriever
And she cuts the rope and hope on hope
She starts to shout

{CHAR/MARYANN}
"Your dog's got out!"

{CHAR}
She's got her chance
With no back glance, she runs out to the bog
Screaming, screaming

{CHAR/MARYANN}
"Leave Maryann
You've got a life left to live
In house hanging off the golden coast
Leave Maryann
You won't forget, nor forgive"

{CHAR}
And she don't feel the stings and rips and scrapes
As finally Maryann escapes
Swim Maryann
Swim Maryann
And in this swamp with leeches, as the preacher preaches
There's a light in the night
Push through the marsh and brushes
As the blood inside you rushes
Left and right, all your might!
Until you reach the bank
And you crawl onto the bank
Til you feel a little little yank on your hair
And stricken stare at the bastard 
Who beat you there
The bastard lies in bed now
Half sad his wife is dead now
She drowned herself in the swamp in wild despair
He thinks he used to love her
But push it came to shove her
A wife disposed, a life case closed and no one seems to care
To grieve Maryann
Now no one's on his shoulder
But his mattress don't feel colder
In fact, it's hellish hot
And the air is dank and steaming
Yet his body starts to shiver
As the window cracks a sliver
And fiery frog from the miry bog pours in the room in a stick gloom
And there the man sees dead Maryann
He's terrified but he keeps his pride
Cause he knows that he ain't dreaming

And he starts screaming

{CHAR/CONNOR}
"Leave Maryann
Hell sent you back here for more
Cause ain't no one ever loved you"

{CHAR}
But said Maryann

{CHAR/MARYANN}
"I've come to settle a score"

{CHAR}
And she shows him her feet are bound in chains
And loyal Maryann...
Remains and remains and remains and remains!
Someone's howling
Screams like sighing with battered breath
Grating, growling, never dying
In a fate worse than death
Maryann, she cries her miserable wail
So the bastards will never sleep again
No, no reprieve Maryann
She brings their souls down to hell
A caution to the cruelest of men
God loves Maryann!
Praise be
Amen