# Song "Mary in the Morning"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 31, 2002, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-mary-in-the-morning/101052 "2002-03-31T12:06:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-mary-in-the-morning/101052/1 "2002-03-31T12:06:18Z")

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Maybe twice in my life have I heard the lovely song “Mary in the Morning,” once a vocal and once an instrumental, the latter in February 1981 on KBIG, a “beautiful music” station in Los Angeles. I whistled and hummed part of the opening like this:  
_La la la la  
La Mary in the Morning  
That’s all the words that I know to this song…_  
Yes, I sang that last line! 😛  
But I don’t know the rest of the lyrics nor the name of the male vocalist who sang it.  
Any info, please? 🙂

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-mary-in-the-morning/101052/2 "2002-03-31T14:22:00Z")

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> Nothing’s quite as pretty as Mary in the morning  
> When through the sleepy haze I see her lying there  
> Soft as the rain that falls on summerflowers  
> Warm as the sunlight shining on her head

[http://www.reallyrics.com/lyrics/E000400020141.asp](http://www.reallyrics.com/lyrics/E000400020141.asp)

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**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-mary-in-the-morning/101052/3 "2002-03-31T14:32:09Z")

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Search engines are your friend! There were two versions recorded in the late '60s, by Al Martino and Ed Ames; the Ed Ames version is the one I remember:

\*Nothing’s quite as pretty as Mary in the morning,  
When through a sleepy haze I see her lying there.  
Soft as the rain that falls on summer flowers  
Warm as the sunlight shining on her golden hair.

When I awake and see her there so close beside me  
I want to take her in my arms, the ache is there  
So deep inside me.

Nothing’s quite as pretty as Mary in the morning,  
Chasing a rainbow in her dreams so far away.  
And when she turns to touch it I kiss her face so softly  
And then my Mary wake to love another day.

And Mary’s there in summer days or stormy weather;  
She doesn’t care how right or wrong, the love we share,  
We share together

Nothing’s quite as pretty as Mary in the evening,  
Kissed by the shades of night, and starlight in her hair.  
And as we walk, I hold her close beside me  
All our tomorrows for a lifetime we will share\*

(Ed Ames is probably best remembered as the man who impaled a cutout sheriff’s crotch with a tomahawk on _The Tonight Show_, causing what is reputed to be the longest sustained audience laughter ever recorded.)

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-mary-in-the-morning/101052/4 "2002-04-01T05:57:32Z")

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Thanx to both 🙂  
_Elvis??_ :eek: 😛