Lyr Req: Wedding songs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: GUEST,Zeph
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 10:31 AM

Referring to Joybell's comment about "Wild Mountain Thyme", I know that most people sing in the 3rd verse "If my true love he were gone, I would surely find another.." but this seems to go so obviously against the ethos of the song that I've always thought it should be "I would surely find NO other..". Any ideas about the original intention???apologies for straying off the thread

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: GUEST,Cats
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 10:53 AM

I've sung 'Searching For Lambs'at a fair few weddings. It is a stunning song with a very haunting melody.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 08:19 AM

Some that we did at a wedding are:

Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Mon Vrai Destin
Lover's Waltz
Never Ending Love For You
Queen of Hearts
Roseville Fair

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: cptsnapper
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 04:25 AM

Let It Be Me ( Everly Brothers ) segued into In My Life ( The Beatles )

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: Kaleea
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:14 AM

Yes! I frequently get requests for the Noel Stookey song-even from the young kids now! Then, there are the old standards=it never ceases to amaze me how many kids these days want the really old, moldy stuff like "Oh Promise Me" which I couldn't stand way back when I got crappily harried in 1972. There are also a few recent wedding album recordings which have become quite popular & are almost always mentioned by the couples when they come to me. Some have Classical Music & some include popular songs from the 70's to recent times. You might check out:
   The Wedding Album
   The Ultimate Wedding Album
   The Complete Traditional Wedding Album
   Modern Bride Presents the Wedding Album

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: mg
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 02:09 AM

oh do sing the Wedding Song by Noel Paul Stookey...it is so pretty. The call and answer is pretty too..you are the call I am the answer you are the wish and I am the way...Mari's wedding.. mg

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: Joybell
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 12:48 AM

I used to offer the following songs when I sang at weddings:

The Rose (not at all sad but assumed by many to be)
There'll Never be Anyone Else but You for Me - (Ricky Nelson song from the 60s.)
Love is a Golden Ring
Have I Told you Lately that I Love You.
Dream.
Devoted to You.
Remember Me I'm the One Who Loves You.
Always
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
Wild Mountain Thyme (with a few word changes in the verse about finding another if it doesn't work out.)

All a bit dated but they still work for the right people. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: GUEST,Ingrid Frances Stark
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 10:25 PM

Steve and I sang Utah Phillips' Hymn Song, alternating verses to each other, and invited everyone to sing on the chorus. Everybody loved it.

Ingrid

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: Gurney
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 05:16 PM

DO NOT, DO NOT tell the joke about the newly-weds and the donkey.(I'm a-telling you once, Mr burro, you'd better....)
The men roared, the bride never spoke to me again.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 12:37 PM

"In Spite Of Ourselves" by John Prine

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: Leadfingers
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 12:35 PM

Traditional - The Wedding song as sung by the Copper Family

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 12:26 PM

"All That Is" by Garnet Rogers

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: GUEST,Zeph
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 12:09 PM

Kate Wolf's "Two Way Waltz". Or her probably better known "Give Yourself to Love"

Subject: Lyr Req: Wedding songs
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 12:03 PM

Anyone got any suggestions for some songs to sing at a wedding?