Mary Jane

Album: Come Get It! (1978)
Charted: 41
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  • Come here, baby
    Mary I love you, do it girl

    Mary Jane, Mary Jane

    I'm in love with Mary Jane
    She's my main thing
    She makes me feel alright
    She makes my heart sing

    And when I'm feeling low
    She comes as no surprise
    Turns me on with her love
    Takes me to paradise, do you love me Mary Jane?
    Yeah, whoa-oh-oh
    Do ya? Do ya? Do ya? Do ya? Do ya? Do ya?
    Now do you think you love me Mary Jane
    Don't you play no games

    Mary Jane, I love her just the same
    Mary Jane I love her, Mary baby, just the same, Mary Jane
    The woman plays no games, now, now, now, Mary Jane

    I'm in love with Mary Jane, I'm not the only one
    If Mary wanna play around, I let her have her fun
    She's not the kind of girl that you can just tie down
    She likes to spread her love and turn your head around

    Do ya love me Mary Jane, yeah
    Whoa-oh-oh
    Do ya? Do ya? Do ya? Do ya? Do ya? Do ya?
    Now do you think you love me Mary Jane
    Don't you play no games

    (Uh, come here baby)

    Mary Jane, I love her just the same
    Mary Jane I love her, baby, baby, baby, baby, yeah, Mary Jane
    But Mary plays no games, Mary Jane
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah oh baby
    Yeah! Ooohwoo
    Oh baby, oh baby, hit me

    Whoa, Mary, only love
    I love you, yeah, whoo!

    Something until we give it now, lovey-dove
    Love baby
    Uh-huh, wow, baby!

    Sing! Du-da-da-du-da-dah-dah
    Du-da-da-du-da-dah-dah
    Du-da-da-du-da-dah-dah
    Sing! Du-da-da-du-da-dah-da (oh yeah)
    Du-da-da-du-da-dah-dah
    Du-da-da-du-da-dah-dah
    Sing! Du-da-da-du-da-dah-da
    Sing it for me baby du-da-da-du-da-dah-da
    Come Mary, Mary Jane du-da-da-du-da-dah-da
    Sing it for me baby du-da-da-du-da-dah-da Writer/s: Rick James
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Billy Nunn from Las Vegas Nv.To Kitrik from Edmonton AB "Mary Jane" was the second single, "You & I" was the first. There was never a song called "Come Get It" just the LP ...
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 22, 1978, Rick James performed "Mary Jane" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV network Saturday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
    Three months later on October 29th the song entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at #83; just under nine weeks later it would peak at #41 {for 1 week} and it spent 12 weeks on the Top 100...
    Between 1978 and 1985 he had eleven records on the Hot Top 100 chart;
    He had more success on the Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart; between 1978 and 2006 he charted twenty-eight times, twelve made the Top 10 with four reaching #1, "You and I' for 2 weeks in 1978, "Give It To Me Baby" for 5 weeks in 1981, "Cold Blooded" for 6 weeks in 1983, and "Loosey's Rap" {featuring Roxanne Shanté) for 1 week in 1988...
    Rick James, born James Ambrose Johnson, Jr., passed away at the young age of 56 on August 6th, 2004...
    May he R.I.P.
  • Kitrik from Edmonton, Aba comment to the commentor, You said Mary Jane " was his second single as a solo artist, his first being the album's title track " The album was titled " Come get it " and I dont recall a song called " Come get It" but I do remember his first release being a song called " You and I" ..... no?
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