ADD:Weddin/Abody kens a weddin is only meant for 2

Subject: Lyr Req: Abody ken a weddin is only meant for
From: GUEST,Allan T
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 07:21 PM

I am looking for the full Lyrics of a song I remember a little of from about 30 years ago I think it is from the North East of Scotland, the part I remember goes something like this.

Wi carrots and leeks, ingins and leeks
Broccoli, celery, lettuces' a growin' in bonnie we raw's

Oh abodys loves a weddin abody loves a do
Ma Granny does the eightsoem reel ma grandpa he gets fu
Abody kens a weddin is only meant for two
The next time ye see the couple they've added tae the crew

Can any one help

Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Abody ken a weddin is only meant for
From: Celtaddict
Date: 24 Oct 07 - 06:49 PM

I am responding mainly to keep this from dropping off, but if you have any information about who sang it where it sometimes helps.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Abody ken a weddin is only meant for
From: GUEST,Allan T
Date: 25 Oct 07 - 05:16 AM

Thanks but unfortunately I don't know who sang it or indeed if this was the name of the song I can only remember these lyrics.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Abody kens a weddin is only meant for two
From: Reinhard
Date: 13 Dec 25 - 02:30 AM

Fraser and Ian Bruce sang The Weddin’ on their 1985 album "Mrs Bruce's Boys Vol 2" and in a 2015 live recording on "The Best of Mrs Bruce’s Boys". The give it as trad. arr. Fraser & Ian Bruce but I haven't heard it anywhere else before.

THE WEDDIN'

Noo I never thocht when I was young that I would tak a wife
They say that being married, you were never free frae strife
But noo I’ve taken the plunge an’ tomorrow I’ll married be
For when I asked the bonny wee lass, she said she’d marry me

Chorus:
And I’m goin’ tae hae a bonny wee hoose that I can call my ain
I’m goin’ tae hae a bonny wee wife that naebody else can claim
A bonny wee gairden filled wi’ flooers, a guid wee plot an’ a'
Wi carrots an’ leeks, ingins and neeps, sproots, celery, beans an’ beets
Cabbages, broccoli, lettuces a’ growing in a bonny wee row
For a’body loves a waddin’, a’body loves a do
Granny does the eightsome reel, Grandpa he gets fu’
A’body kens a waddin’ is only meant for two
The next time you see the couple they’ve added on a crew.

Noo I’ll tak off my tackety bits likewise my nicky-tams
You’ll no see me oot here the morn in the field atween the trams
For I’ll hae on my Sunday best, my collar an’ my bow
An’ when the minister ties the knot you’ll hear me shouting O!

Noo I’ll tak her for a day tae Perth and then we’ll settle doon
I’ll gie her a’ ma wages an’ ye’ll never see me froon
An in the hoose my bonnie wee wife as sure as a pig makes ham
The next time ye see me I’ll be hurling a bonny wee pram.