From “Annie Get Your Gun”, 1966
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Chorus
We’ll have an old-fashioned wedding
Blessed in the old-fashioned way
I’ll vow to love you forever
You’ll vow to love and honor and obey
Somewhere in some little chapel
Someday when orange blossoms bloom
We’ll have an old-fashioned wedding
A simple wedding
For an old-fashioned bride and groom
Chorus
I want a wedding in a big church
With bridesmaids and flower girls
A lot of ushers in tailcoats
Reporters and photographers
A ceremony by a bishop
Who will tie the knot and say
“Do you agree to love and honor?”
Love and honor, yes, but not obey
I want a wedding ring
Surrounded by diamonds and platinum
A big reception at the Waldorf
With champagne and caviar
I want a wedding like the Vanderbilts had
Everything big, not small
If I can’t have that kind of a wedding
I don’t want to get married at all