Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)
Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)

There was a young lady
She went by the name of Mary
She used to play the ukelele
Wasn't she quite a beauty?
She sang at the age of seven
Now look how big she's gotten
Wait a second, was that Mary Ellen?
(Mary Ellen, Mary Ellen, Mary Ellen)

Mary Ellen was just an orphan
She was abandoned and bereft
She ran away when she was eleven
The girl was accused of theft
She vanished all of a sudden
Because there was nothing left

Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)
Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)

Mary Ellen was just an orphan
Who grew up to be a gorgeous woman
With a sultry voice so smooth as satin
When she sings she takes you to heaven
Rumor has it that she met a musician
But what happened to Mary Ellen?
(Mary Ellen, Mary Ellen, Mary Ellen)

Mary Ellen was just a woman
She met a man dressed in scarlet
She fell in love when she was fifteen
So she sang with him at a cabaret
The sax player's name was Dorian
They had a time they wouldn't forget

Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)
Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)
Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)
Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)

Time passed like grains of sand
She danced like Isadora Duncan
She travelled with a nomadic band
The world forgot about Mary Ellen
Though she became known as Mitzi
The band performed the Mata Hari
(Mary Ellen, Mary Ellen, Mary Ellen)

What happened to you, Dorian?
Did you get drunk all of a sudden?
Why was Mary Ellen heart-broken?
Oh my, look how high you've fallen
One day, Mitzi became smitten
And she went to marry the villain

Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)
Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)

There was a fine lady
She went by the name of Mitzi
She used to play the ukelele
Wasn't she quite a beauty?
She sang when she was twenty seven
Now look how big she's gotten
Wait a second, wasn't she Mary Ellen?
(Mary Ellen, Mary Ellen, Mary Ellen)

Mitzi May was just a woman
She received a lovely gift
It was a radiant pearl necklace
It was all thanks to Atlas
He vanished all of a sudden
And there was nothing left

Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)
Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)

Mitzi May was a widowed woman
Striking deals with businessmen
She had to be quick on her two feet
After she failed to make a deal with Mr. Sweet
She had to be swift, she had to act quick
So she set her sights on good ol' Wick
(Mary Ellen, Mary Ellen, Mary Ellen)

Mr. Sable was just a nervous wreck
So she took her chance to snatch a check
She wrote him in, there was no time to gloat
She had to do what she can to keep Lackadaisy afloat

Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)
Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)
Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)
Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! Mary Ellen! (Mary Ellen)

MA-RY EL-LEN! MA-RY EL-LEN! MA-RY EL-LEN! MA-RY EL-LEN! (Dorian knew who was Mary Ellen)
MA-RY EL-LEN! MA-RY EL-LEN! MA-RY EL-LEN! MA-RY EL-LEN! (He thought that it had been a whim)
MA-RY EL-LEN! MA-RY EL-LEN! MA-RY EL-LEN! MA-RY EL-LEN! (“You might've gone and married a villain.”)
MA-RY EL-LEN! MA-RY EL-LEN! MA-RY EL-LEN! MA-RY EL-LEN! (“But I never thought you were made as the same stuff as him.”)