Song Description

I didn't listen when my mama said don't marry that boy.

Lyrics

DON?T GET MARRIED YOUNG MARIE

VERSE 1:
I ran away when I was sixteen,
My mama didn't understand.
She said that I was just a baby,
I thought that Bobby was a man.
Me and Bobby at the movies,
Me and Bobby parking by the riverside,
We said we loved each other truly,
We made my mama cry--- and mama said

CHORUS:
Don't get married young Marie,
You want Bobby now, but wait and see.
You lose your youth too easily
If you get married my young Marie, oh-ohh.

VERSE 2:
I married Bobby at the courthouse,
A little town called Bennettsville.
Dropped out of high school for the baby,
Working at the cotton mill.
Me and Bobby in a trailer,
Me and Bobby growing up so fast,
I remember mama saying,
This love will never last-- and mama said

(REPEAT CHORUS)

BRIDGE:
We were kids without a clue,
We thought love would see us through
If we want it bad enough,
We believed in love,
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah,
We believed in love.

VERSE 3:
Your daddy left me for a waitress
When you were barely two years old.
I never figured him for faithless,
I guess you never really know.
And now you love that boy with brown eyes,
You're still a baby girl, and standing in my shoes.
If I'da listened to your grandma,
Child, I wouldn't have you-- and mama said

(REPEAT CHORUS)

TAG:
Don't get married my young Marie,
Don't get married so young Marie
Don't get married my young Marie,
Yeah, my young Marie.