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Terry Muncy: Music

Put A Marv On It

(Terry Muncy)
“PUT A MARV ON IT”
TERRY MUNCY

"An everyday hero"

VERSE
MARVIN CROOKSHANK WAS HIS NAME
WORKING IN THE LOGWOODS WAS HIS GAME
HE WAS A LEGENDARY MAN
HE COULD TAKE A CANTHOOK AND OPEN A CAN
SOMETHING GET STUCK OR NEEDED FIXED
WE’D CALL ON MARV HE ALWAYS HAD A TRICK
BUT HE HAD TO GET MAD..WE’D STAND CLEAR
HE’D GET IT GOING WE’D ALL CHEER…………..WAY TO GO MARV
THINGS BREAK DOWN WHEN MARV WASN’T AROUND
WE’D JOKE ‘N SAY PUT A MARV ON IT . NOW
IT WOULD SHORTEN THE DAY AND LIGHTEN THE MOOD
THOSE WORDS CAUGHT ON AS THE LEGEND GREW
CHORUS
PUT A MARV ON IT IF SOMETHING GETS STUCK
SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA RISE ABOVE…PUT A MARV ON IT
PUT A MARV ON IT IF SOMETHIN’ WON’T MOVE
JUST ASK YOURSELF WHAT WOULD MARV DO…..PUT A MARV ON IT BOYS
BRIDGE
WHEN MARV GOT OLD .. CLOSE TO GONE
WE SAID MARV WHAT DO YOU WANT ON YOUR STONE
WITH CHARACTERISTIC WIT HE SAID
PUT A MARV ON IT…. BOYS
VERSE
IT SEEMED LIKE MARV WAS STILL AROUND
UP THERE SOMEWHERE LOOKIN’ DOWN
ONE DAY A BIG WHITE OAK FELL
SOMEONE LET OUT A TERRIBLE YELL
A GREENHORN LAY BENEATH THAT TREE
TEN OF US MEN COULDN’T GET HIM FREE
THEN A VOICE SAID PUT A MARV ON IT BOYS
THAT TREE MOVED LIKE IT WAS A TOY
WASN’T US THAT SAVED THAT GREENHORN’S LIFE
THEY SAY IT WAS MARV FROM UP ON HIGH
GUESS WE ALWAYS FIGURED WHEN MARV WAS THRU
HE’D BE GETTING’ THINGS UNSTUCK FOR THE GOOD LORD TOO
REPEAT CHORUS..

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PUT A MARV ON IT … BOYS
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