Mary Ellen's Testimony
Mary Ellen was the oldest daughter in that Moyers clan
The image of her mama and nothing like the man
Who folks said was her daddy, a man rotten to the core
A whiskey drinking drifter who'd just show up at their door
Well maybe mama loved him maybe sometime long ago
Before the whiskey took his mind and the devil took his soul
Everybody knew he's evil but they didn't know the half
Or the dirty little secret that ended in a shotgun blast
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Mary Ellen's testimony would rock Pushmataha county
When Mary told the secret buried safely thirty years
The judge and jury listened as the mystery came unraveled
And Southeast Oklahoma could not believe their ears
(Inst. Turnaround)
The Pushmataha courthouse didn't have an empty seat
Mary's hand touched the Bible and her demons came unleashed
The Judge sat in judgment and he never blinked an eye
When the Jury said "Not guilty, some men deserve to die"
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Mary Ellen's testimony rocked Pushmataha county
As Mary told a secret she'd kept buried thirty years
The judge and jury listened as the mystery came unraveled
And Southeast Oklahoma could not believe their ears
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Innocent men hang sometimes guilty men will walk
In Oklahoma they saw justice served when Mary Ellen talked
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Mary Ellen's testimony rocked Pushmataha county
When Mary told a secret she'd kept buried thirty years
The judge and jury listened as the mystery came unraveled
And Southeast Oklahoma could not believe their ears
(Tag)
Mary Ellen's testimony rocked Pushmataha county
When Mary told a secret she'd kept buried thirty years
Lonnie C. Ratliff Vaughn Lofstead
Okie Acres Music (BMI)
