I Wanna Get Married
Words and Music by Dan Shapiro, Milton Pascal and Phil Charig
From the musical "Follow The Girls"
Published 1944

[verse 1]
Ev'rything is ready for the wedding,
The choir's been rehearsing for a week,
The minister is standing in the pulpit
But it seems the groom is playing hide and seek,
So here I'm standing waiting starry eyed
When will I ever get to be a bride.

[chorus 1]
I Wanna Get Married,
I wanna get spliced
I long to be knotted
and see my friends potted
I wanna be confettied and riced
They say that married life
Is what one makes it
I'm sure I've got what it takes
But no one takes it
I wanna get settled
Crawl into a shell.
I wanna start cooing
and spend my life doing
the things that mom and pop used to spell,
Give me a cottage small
where a railroad never stops
I wanna sleep in pajama tops
I wanna get married

The other day a friend of mine had triplets,
The doctor placed them gently on her bed,
He asked if there was anything she wanted
She looked at him and this is what she said,
I'd like someone to share my hour of bliss,
Please call their daddy up and tell him this!"

[chorus 2]
I Wanna Get Married,
I wanna get spliced
I long to be knotted
and see my friends potted
I wanna be confettied and riced
When he said "I love you"
I was in clover
But I'm beginning to think
He slipped on over
I wanna get settled
I wanna be true
Though triplets are charming
it's really alarming
what three Manhattan cocktails can do
Give me a cottage small
and a license I can frame
I wanna be "Missus What's His Name?"
I wanna get married