Good try, Stewart, only a few mis-heard words. Here it is- (I cheated and copied the words from the book).

HENRIETTA'S WEDDING^^
(Marais and Miranda version)
Copyright 1940, Marais and Diggenhof

We've been invited to Henrietta's wedding,
Though she can't tell us when it will be.
We hear, the tears that her mother is shedding,
Are because of the old lady's glee.
When will it be?

When will it be, when will it be? (2x)
We've been invited to Henrietta's wedding
Though she can't tell us when it will be.

We've been invited to Henrietta's wedding,
No one knows who her husband will be.
They say she's started to buy all of the bedding,
But the husband's a deep mystery.
Who can it be?

Who can it be, who can it be? (2x)
Though we're invited to Henrietta's wedding
No one knows who her husband will be.

We've been invited to Henrietta's wedding,
And we want to know where it will be.
We wonder which way to go to the wedding
And, between you and me, so does she.
Where will it be?

Where will it be? Where will it be? (2x)
We wonder which way to go to the wedding,
And between you and me, so does she.

From sheet music in Marais & Miranda, 1960, "Folk Song Jamboree, pp. 15-19, Ballantine Books.

Marais says, "There used to be a Zulu tune of about 8 bars about the coming celebration of Henrietta's wedding- an event that always remained in the future. My theory is that some man at some time told his wife he had spent his money on a present for Henriettta's wedding, and, when this proved to be a myth, he became the laughing stock of the town... then the country... and quite logically, a folk ditty ensued. Upon that fragmant, this published song is based."

Henrietta's Wedding by Josef Marais and Albert Diggenhof, copyright 1940 by Fideree Music Corp.

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