Mrs.MaryMack's Revival

(ooh) Mary

in

the pale blue night Miss Mary Mack in the schoolyard glow

Hands in time where the old songs go

Silver buttons catching a borrowed light

Little tin stars in the breath of night

I hear her name like a ribbon unwound Soft on the air,

soft on the ground

And the moon leans low where the children sang

Holding every note that our knuckles rang

Still it comes back slow,

still it circles round Miss Mary Mack,

mack, mack All dressed in black,

black, black

Silver buttons, buttons, buttons All down her back,

back, back

Moon on the track,

track, track Pulling us back,

back, back Old little pattern,

pattern, pattern Glow in the dark,

dark, dark We grew too tall for the gate and the game

Still that rhythm returns when you call my name

Silver on a coat and a sky gone white Rounds of memory

turning under streetlight

Every small laugh that we left behind

Moves like a tide through the sleeping mind

Moon, keep watch on the steps we knew

On the clapping hands and the midnight blue

If time lets go,

let it shine right through Miss Mary

Mack, mack, mack All dressed in black,

black, black

Silver buttons, buttons, buttons All down her back,

back, back

Moon on the track,

track, track Calling us back,

back, back Old little pattern,

pattern, pattern

Stay in the dark,

dark, dark

Miss Mary Mack

Silver buttons in the moon Back,

back, back (ooh)