Lyrics to
Mary-Ann

This version of Mary-Ann was released by Alice Cooper in 1973.

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Mary-Ann, I’m really crazy about you, deed I am
I just can’t live without you, Mary-Ann
Mary-Ann
Mary-Ann
My life was built around you
Stars and sand, your eyes were pools of laughter, Mary-Ann
I thought you were my man

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About Lyrics and Mary-Ann by Alice Cooper

When you decide to study the lyrics to Mary-Ann, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Alice Cooper. Some of the lyrics to Mary-Ann have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Alice Cooper and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Mary-Ann if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Mary-Ann" means the words set to the music of Mary-Ann, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Alice Cooper. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Mary-Ann and the lyrics to Mary-Ann are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Alice Cooper who came here looking just for the lyrics to Mary-Ann, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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