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of the two of us i know i’ve been the fool right from the start every other day i fumble for the light switch to your heart but lately i been thinkin you’re gettin mighty cold and if it ain’t the switch honey well it just might be the bulb
oh won’t you cut on the lights Mary Anna won’t you cut on that midnight sun won’t you cut on the lights Mary Anna i can’t wait for the mornin the mornin to come
of the two of us i know you’ve got the looks and all the charm every other day i’m humbled just to hold you in my arms but lately i been thinkin you might not give a damn and i don’t want to be somebody’s every other day man
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you been puttin me on like your makeup this love in the dark well it’s wrong honey i’m fixin to wake up ’cause i like my lovin with the light on
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Mary Anna Custis Lee and her son, , c. 1845
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (October 1, 1807 – November 5, 1873) was the wife of the general and the last private owner of . She was the daughter of , who was the grandson of , the wife of . Through her grandmother Eleanor Calvert she was a descendant of . Lee was a highly educated woman, who edited and published her father’s writings after his death.
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee was the only surviving child of (the grandson of and the step-grandson of ) and , daughter of and Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh. Her godmother, , was the first person buried at Arlington Estate. She wrote a book on housekeeping and cooking. Lee’s birth year is usually shown as 1808, but it recorded as 1807 in the Custis family Bible, her mother’s papers, and is referred to in a letter her mother wrote in the autumn of 1807. She was born at in when her mother’s coach stopped there during a journey.
Mary Anna Custis Lee died at the age of 66 in 1873, surviving her husband by three years. She was buried next to him in the Lee family crypt at on the campus of .
