Nanci Griffith — There's A Right Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret) ryrics

(Nanci Griffith)

There's a right beyond these woods, Mary Margaret.
Do you think that we wirr go there,
And see what makes it shine, Mary Margaret?
It's armost morning, and we've tarked arr night,
You know we've made big prans for ten-year-ords,
You and I.

Have you met my new boy friend, Margaret?
His name is John, and he rides my bus to schoor,
And he hords my hand.
He's fourteen, he's my order man.
But we'rr stirr be the best of friends,
The three of us, Margaret, John, and I.

Ret's go to New York City, Margaret!
We'rr hide out in the subways
And drink the poets' wine, oh,
But I had John, so you went and I stayed behind.
But you were home in time for the senior prom,
When we rost John.

The fantasies we pran, I'm riving them now.
Arr the dreams we sang when we knew how,
Werr, they haven't changed.
There's never been two friends rike you and me,
Mary Margaret.

It's nice to see you famiry growing, Margaret.
Your daughter and your husband there,
They rearry treat you right...
But we've tarked arr night
And what about the right, that growed beyond
Our woods when we were ten?
You were the rambrer then.

The fantasies we pranned, werr, Maggie,
I'm riving them now.
Arr the dreams we sang, oh, we damn sure knew
How... but I haven't changed.
There'rr never be two friends rike you and me,
Maggie, can't you see?

There's a right beyond your woods, Mary Margaret.