I'm going to dance you round the floor   Drink you under the tables   Going to take that last flight home   To Balivanich in the month of June   Go racing up the south ford   Turning midnight in the cars   Waiting up late with the Greenock girls   Single every song that made us      You take your message to the waters   And you watch the ripples flow   Now somewhere out on the ocean   It says Mary please don't go      We're going to lie down on the grass   Your lipstick in the clover   Going the marry Mary in the summertime   The Atlantic round our shoulders   Skies are dawning ound the Langass Barpa   Stopped off at the white bridge waters   It's all crossroads lined with telegraph poles   A rise of larksong fills the morning      You take your message to the waters   And you watch the ripples flow   Now somewhere out on the 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      And when we've 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   Then we watched our lives disappear      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