June Bride

LIZA Oh, they say when you marry in June, You're a bride all your life. SARAH And the bridegroom who marries in June Gets a sweetheart for a wife. RUTH Winter weddings can be gay Like a Christmas holiday. MARTHA But the June bride hears the song Of the spring that lasts all summer long. DORCAS By the light of the silvery moon Home you ride, side by side LIZA With the echo of Mendelssohn's tune LIZA, SARAH & ALICE In your hearts as you ride ALL BRIDES For they say when you marry in June, You will always be a bride. LIZA The day a maiden marries is a day she carries through the years MARTHA & DORCAS The Church is full of flowers, bridal showers all passe ALL BRIDES The groom's waiting at the altar, here comes the bride, They're each promising to love and obey. LIZA There's madness celebrating Every bridesmaid waiting Just to see which one of them will catch the wedding bouquet. ALL BRIDES For they say when you marry in June, You will always, always, always, be a bride. ALICE, SARAH & DORCAS In November, the snow starts to fly, Piling up, ankle-high. LIZA, MARTHA & RUTH Come December, it's up to your knee, Still a bride's a bride-to-be. ALL BRIDES January, higher still, To the parlor window sill. MILLY February finds a drift And the storm that seems never to lift. LIZA, SARAH & DORCAS March comes in like a lion, what else? Still the snow never melts. LIZA & ALICE April showers will come, so they say. LIZA But they don't, and it's May. ALL BRIDES You're about to forget the whole thing, All at once, one day, it's Spring.