Escrita por Bruce Springsteen, foi gravada em agosto e setembro de 1972 e lançada no disco Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., em 5 de janeiro de 1973. Foi a música que Bruce tocou pra John Hammond da CBS Records, que assinou um contrato com ele em 2 de maio de 1972. A canção tem Bruce e seu violão e tem letra densa e com estilo de Bob Dylan. Além do violão, Bruce toca gaita.
A letra:
Mary
queen of Arkansas, it's not too early for dreamin'
The sky is
grown with cloud seed sown and a bastard's love can be redeeming
Mary, my queen, your soft hulk is reviving
No, you're not too
late to desecrate, the servants are just rising
Well, I'm
just a lonely acrobat, the live wire is my trade
I've been a
shine boy for your acid brat and a wharf rat of your state
Mary,
my queen, your blows for freedom are missing
Oh you're not man
enough for me to hate or woman enough for kissing
Oh, the big
top is for dreamers, we can take the circus all the way to the border
And the gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order
But
I was not born to live to die, and you were not born for queenin'
Oh, It's not to late to infiltrate, the servants are just leavin'
Mary queen of Arkansas, your white skin is deceivin'
You
wake and wait who to lie in bait and you almost got me believin'
But
on your bed, Mary, I can see the shadow of a noose
Oh, I don't
understand how you can hold me so tight and love me so damn loose
But I know a place where we can go, Mary
Where I can get
a good job and start out all over again clean
Oh, I got contacts
deep in Mexico where the servants have been seen
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