It's wedding day, wedding day!
Wedding day six months too late
How you gonna lie, tired and grey
In the bed you've made?
Mother fixed me up a marriage drawer
Silks and sheets and jewellery
All half filled 'fore I was four
And ritually shown to me
What a fine thing it is, to be a wife! To be a mother
What a fine thing it is to love another! (Always in these binds
I find her words still often come to mind)
1 Corinthians 7:2
Don't give what you can't afford to lose
But in the end I didn't choose
For there to be a war
It's wedding day, wedding day!
Wasn't meant to be this way
Him on necessary leave
And me grown strangely overweight
What a fine thing it is, to be a wife! To be a mother
What a fine thing it is to have a lover gone to war
And a babe ripe to be born
And your own mother sobbing cruelly
Over silks and sheets and jewellery