Standard (EADGBE)
Verse 1
Ah Miss Mary won't you please come home from
China
Bring a bottle of whisky and a tin cup for your
Teeth
Don't you sneak into the back door wearing some
Disguise
Knock on the front door in view of the Temperance
Guild
Verse 2
Ah Miss Mary won't you please come home cause I
Miss ya
Your old spinster sister don't always give good advice
Look at her she's in love with that drunken bandy-legged
Sheriff
He'll unzip her pantsuit, but never leave his fat
Wife
Chorus
Ah Miss Mary won't you please come home from
China
Come home from China
Come home from China
Verse 3
Now that fake old beatnik poet the volunteer
Fireman
He don't care if you come, he don't care like I
He's in love with his dog and all the volunteer
Firemen
And he is a--fraid to let the end of his versus
Rhyme
REPEAT CHORUS 2x:
FINALE:
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