Best Man's song - ideas, please

Subject: Best Man's song - ideas, please
From: GUEST,Ian cookieless
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 11:31 AM

In 2 weeks I am the best man at a great musical friend's wedding. As part of my best man's speech, I'd like to sing a song to wish them all the very best. (Almost everything the groom and I do together is musical.) Most trad. songs about weddings seem to be tragic and therefore inappropriate, as do nearly all the love songs. So any ideas, please, for an appropriate best man's (traditional?) 'good wishes for your marriage' song?

Subject: RE: Best Man's song - ideas, please
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 11:35 AM

Hello Ian,

My 6d worth...write your own "set to a well-known tune" in the style of the old broadsheets.

Garnet Rogers "All that is" was written for a friend's wedding if that helps. A lovely song!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Best Man's song - ideas, please
From: quokka
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 01:02 PM

is it allowed to be humorous? If so there is a song by Australian band 'Skyhooks' called 'All My Friends Are Getting Married'.
Cheers,
Quokka

Subject: RE: Best Man's song - ideas, please
From: Acorn4
Date: 19 Jul 08 - 02:40 PM

"When Two Hearts Combine" by Robin Laing -actually written for a friend's splicing, and a great song.

Subject: RE: Best Man's song - ideas, please
From: GUEST,Ian cookieless
Date: 20 Jul 08 - 06:41 AM

Thanks so far, folks. The few trad. songs that seem, at first, appropriate, such as Come Write Me Down, really are not, for reasons that become obvious when one hears the words, so I am grateful for songwriter suggestions. Any more, anyone?

Subject: RE: Best Man's song - ideas, please
From: Marion
Date: 20 Jul 08 - 07:18 AM

Hello Ian. Here's a song I wrote for a friend's wedding: Marjorie's Wedding. It's mostly the tune to the O'Carolan waltz "Fanny Power", with a line of melody borrowed from Ash Grove. If you're interested I can sing it to you over the phone or something.

However, it's written from the point of view of one of the couple rather than a best man's wishes. I'll try to think of something good from a third party point of view.

Marion

Subject: RE: Best Man's song - ideas, please
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Jul 08 - 08:26 PM

"Come Write Me Down"? What's inappropriate with that? It's always struck me as right on the button. We had it at our wedding, and that was 44 years ago in July, and we're still together.

Subject: RE: Best Man's song - ideas, please
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 20 Jul 08 - 08:57 PM

Christy Moore used to one called the voyage. Don williams 'My Best friend'

one of the best best man speeches I ever heard - the best man committed to memory the Shakespeare Sonnet, 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment'.

beautiful sentiment - particularly the line - 'love is not time's fool....'

Subject: RE: Best Man's song - ideas, please
From: cptsnapper
Date: 21 Jul 08 - 02:38 AM

How about Wedding Song (There Is Love) by Paul Stookey of Peter Paul & Mary?