When A Merry Maiden Marries

When a merry maiden marries

Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries

Every sound becomes a song

All is right and nothing's wrong!

From today and ever after

Let your tears be tears of laughter

Every sigh that finds a vent

Be a sigh of sweet content!

When you marry merry maiden

Then the air with love is laden

Every flower is a rose

Every goose becomes a swan

Every kind of trouble goes

Where the last year's snows have gone

Sunlight takes the place of shade

When you marry merry maid!

When a merry maiden marries

Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries

Every sound becomes a song

All is right and nothing's wrong

When a merry maiden marries

Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries

Every sound becomes a song

All is right and nothing's wrong

Gnawing care and aching sorrow

Get ye gone until tomorrow

Jealousies in grim array

Ye are things of yesterday!

When you marry merry maiden

Then the air with joy is laden

All the corners of the earth

Ring with music sweetly played

Worry is melodious mirth

Grief is joy in masquerade

Sullen night is laughing day

All, all the year is merry May!

All the year is merry May

Merry, merry May

Merry, merry May

All the year is merry, merry May!