Oh Marie is a song about a worker in the tobacco Fields.
"There is someone who calls my name . . . We work today, we work in the rain
We work in tobacco, my friend" . He continues about his dirty hands and the long days and nights of work. He is hoping to return to his woman with lots of money and going into to town to sing the songs and drink the drinks. He gets a headache and asks for spirit. l'esprit du corps The weather changes and they can't go back to work.