Mary's A Grand Old Name

by Babes On Broadway

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MARY'S A GRAND OLD NAME
By: George M. Cohan
From: 'Babes On Broadway'
Key: G

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For it is Ma-ry, Ma-ry 
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plain as an-y name can be,
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but with pro-pri-e-ty, 
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so-ci-e-ty will say "Ma-rie".

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But it was Ma-ry, Ma-ry 
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long be-fore the fash-ions came 
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and there is some-thing there 
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that sounds so fair,
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it's a grand old name.