Texas Trilogy: Bosque County Romance Lyrics - Lyle Lovett

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 

Well if the Brazos don't run dry and the newborn calves they don't die 

Another year from Mary will have flown 

Another year from Mary will have flown 

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And now Billy kept what cattle his daddy could afford 

As went bouncing across the cactus in a 1950 ford 

But 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 

And how she kept on smiling no one could ever say 

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 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 

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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 

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 they don't die 

Another year from Mary will have flown 

Another year from Mary will have flown 

Six o'clock silence of a new day begin is heard in the small Texas town 

Like a signal from nowhere the people lived their 

Then up and down moving around 

'Cause this began to fry and the biscuits to bake 

On the store left the salvation out or you won't take 

You open the windows and u turn on the fan 

'Cause it's harder then hill when the sun hits the ground