Bosque County Romance

G C D G Mary Martin was a school girl, just 17 or so G C A When she married Billy Archer ‘bout 14 years D ago C D G Not even out of high school, folks said it C wouldn’t last Am But when you grow up in the country you grow D up mighty fast G C D They married in a hurry, in March ‘fore school G was out. G C A Folks said she was pregnant. “Just wait and D you’ll find out.” C D G It came about that winter one grey November C morn. G D The first of many more to come, a baby boy was G born. G And cattle is their game C A And Archer is the name they give to the acres D that they own. C D G If the Brazos don’t run dry and the newborn C cows don’t die G Em Another year from Mary will have flown. G D G Another year from Mary will have flown. G C D Now Billy he kept what cattle his daddy could G afford G C A D Bouncin’ cross the cactus in a 1950 Ford C D But the cows were sick and skinny and the G C weeds was all that grew Am But Billy kept the place alive, the only thing D he knew. G C D And Mary cooked the supper and Mary scrubbed G the floor G C A D And Mary busted horses and blew the baby’s nose C D G And Mary and her shotgun kept the rattlesnakes C away G D But how she kept on smilin, no one could ever G say. G And cattle is their game C A And Archer is the name they give to the acres D that they own. C D G If the Brazos don’t run dry and the newborn C cows don’t die G Em Another year from Mary will have flown. G D G Another year from Mary will have flown. G C D Now the drought of ‘57 was a curse upon the G land G C A No one in Bosque County could give Bill a D helpin’ hand C D G The ground was cracked and broken, the truck C was out of gas Am And cows can’t feed on prickly pears instead of D growin’ grass G C D Then the weather took the water and a snakebite G took the child G C A And the fire in the old barn took the hay that D Bill had piled C D G The mortgage got the money and the screworms C got the cows G D The years had come for Mary, she’s waitin’ for G ‘em now. G And cattle is their game C A And Archer is the name they give to the acres D that they own. C D G If the Brazos don’t run dry and the newborn C cows don’t die G Em Another year from Mary will have flown. G D G Another year from Mary will have flown.