Give Us Your Blessings

The Shangri-las



Run, run, run,

Mary, run, run, run,

Jimmy, run, run, run,

Mary, run, run, run,



Mary and Jimmy were both very young

But as much in love

As two people could be

And all they wanted

Was to share that love eternally



They went to their folks they told them

That someday soon they'd be wed

Their folks just laughed

And called them kids

So Mary said



Give us your blessing

Please don't make us Run away

Give us your blessing

Say you'll be there on our wedding day



They wouldn't have laughed at Mary

If they could have seen through the door

But Jimmy was waiting in the car

While Mary begged once more



Give us your blessing

Please don't make us Run away

Give us your blessing

Say you'll be there on our wedding day



Well as they drove off they were crying

And nobody knows for sure

That, that's why they didn't see the sign

That read detour



The next day they found them

Mary and Jimmy were dead

And as their folks

Knelt beside them in the rain

They couldn't help but hear

The last words that Mary and Jimmy had said



Give us your blessing

Please don't make us Run away

Give us your blessing

Say you'll be there on our wedding day



Run, run, run,

Mary, run, run, run,

Jimmy, run, run, run,

Mary, run, run, run,