[Verse 1]

I'm gonna dance you 'round the floor

Gonna drink you under the tables

Gonna take the last flight home

To Balivanich in the month of June

Go racin' up the south ford

Turnin' midnight in the cars

Waitin' up late with the Greenock girls

They're singin' every song that made us

[Chorus]

You take your message to the waters

And you watch the ripples flow

Now somewhere out on that ocean

It says, Mary, please don't go

[Verse 2]

We're gonna lie down on the grass

Your lipstick in the clover

Gonna marry Mary in the summertime

The Atlantic 'round our shoulders

Skies are dawnin' round the Langass Barpa

Stopped off at the Whitebridge waters

It's all crossroads lined with telegraph poles

The rise of lark song fills the morning

[Chorus]

You take your message to the waters

And you watch the ripples flow

Now somewhere out on that ocean

Lies our fear should we grow old

You take your message to the waters

And you watch the ripples flow

Now somewhere out on that ocean

It says, Mary, please don't go

[Verse 3]

And when we wasted all our young years

Who's to say we never tried

To live fast and honour our pledges

Here we vowed to stay young till we die

We drank the life from the last of the bottle

We wrote our message out like a prayer

Then we threw away the message with all our hearts

And we watched our lives disappear

[Chorus]

You take your message to the waters

And you watch the ripples flow

Now somewhere out on that great beyond

Lies our fear should we grow old

You take your message to the waters

And you watch the ripples flow

Now somewhere out on that ocean

It says, Mary, please don't go