Burl Ives - Mary Ann Regrets Lyrics
I saved up my money to buy my sweetheart some flowers
For Saturday's date and I restlessly counted the hours
Then today in the mail I received this short little note
And I broke down inside at the message that her mother wrote
We're leaving for Europe next week, she'll be busy till then
They know that she loves me, but poor boys don't fit in their plan
Good-bye true love, good-bye my sweet Mary Ann
The weeks have gone by not a word have I heard since then
In the papers I read of the far away places she's been
I can't eat, I can't sleep for over and over again
My mind reads that letter and I cry for my Mary Ann
Mary Ann regrets she's unable to see you again
They know that she loves me but poor boys don't fit in their plan
Good-bye true love, good-bye my sweet Mary Ann
My Mary Ann died, they said she just wasted away
If I could have seen her I know she'd be living today
For we loved each other and if they'd have left us alone
Today she'd be wearing my ring, not a blanket of stone
Mary Ann regrets she's unable to see you again
We're leaving for Europe next week, she'll be busy till then
They know that she loves me but poor boys don't fit in their plan
Good-bye true love, good-bye my sweet Mary-Ann
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Burl Ives Mary Ann Regrets Comments
yikes just found this 45 from who knows when, use to play it as a kid, my mom loved it too!! great old song, thanks Burl.
I was in grade school at the end of the 70s and the early 80s. I had Burl Ives 45s. Little White Duck was a favorite.
Big Daddy was a great actor also. No "mendacity" here...
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From a mad keen 76yo Aussie fan.
Burl Ives was quite the entertainer and a very versatile actor. Hard to imagine his playing the tough and strong minded rancher in the movie "Big Country."
My mom was always singing this song while she did laundry
the voice of a character, in rudolph the raindeer, I think. cartoon in the 60s. Canadian folk singer.
I'm 80 years old, and I've loved this man all my life!!
I like at the beginning you hear a crashing notifacation
My generation knows Burl Ives as the stop-motion animated snowman narrator in the "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" classic.
I love listening to Great songs like is and I love it
& no one even knew of his whereabouts when he 'disappears' a while ago.
I just love him singing this song beautiful
I was a teen when Burl had out "Little Bitty Tear" and "It's My Funny Way of Laughing." I sang those songs over and over again because they were 2 of my most favorite songs. I love his smooth voice.
Her parents were right. People should marry someone within their own social status.
YOUR IDIOCY IS BEYOND SNOBBERY !
have you forgotten to take your tablets
Can't blame you dear. Sure you were raised that way. There's a whole world out there you're missing🤦
Can't blame you dear if you we're raised that way. There's a whole world out there you're missing🤦😰
Someone in the same social class can still be a sociopath. Insanity, dishonesty and kleptomania are not restricted to any one social order.
I love this singer Burl Ives ... I remember him when I was a KID! DGM/
Long time gone, long time remembered.
One of my dads favorite songs RIP dad I miss you so much.
poor Mary Ann ...awesome
The best version of this great song.
I'm still hunting for Burl Ives' version of "The Fox Went Out On A Chilly Night'. Impossible to find.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSaTOI7u8Ds
the title is "the fox"
This song reminds a little of the 1965 hit "Down In The Boondocks" by Billy Joe Royal. Meaning the lines in the song and what it relates to. Meaning this Mary Ann is in a "rich" family and Burl is a "poor boy".
I loved that song Down In The Boondocks...my mates at the time thought I was weird. Shit happens when ya 10.
Brul Ives is AWESOME. He sings the best ever version of Mary Ann Regrets. He sings a great song called 40 Phatoms Down Lies The Gold, but you can't find it on you tube yet. God Bless Burl Ives.
Thanks for the comment. I'm going to look for 40 Phatoms Down Lies The Gold!
Here ya go Johnny. You had the titled wrong - It's Sixteen Fathoms Down. youtube[DOT]com/watch?v=TBMIf1zfzS4 Just replace [DOT] with a period and the link should get you there.