June Bride - Johnny Mercer, Gene DePaul

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.