Marjorie’s Wedding

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To you this day and to you forever

I bind myself and all I own

My heart and flesh, my days and nights

My mind and soul, my child and home.

My songs and my tears, my moments and years

My strength and my burden right freely I give

These vows, this ring; with joy I bring

My hand to yours so long I live.


With you this day and with you forever

I’ll walk and dance and sleep and wake

There’s none but death that can divide us

There’s all of life our path to make.

Through doubt and through faith, in youth and in age

The births and the deaths we are destined to see

In debt or wealth, in pain or health

I’ll be with you and you with me.


Chords: (3/4)


    G                   C

To you this day and to you forever


   D                    D7

I bind myself and all I own


    G                   C

My heart and flesh, my days and nights


    D                  G

My mind and soul, my child and home.


    G                      D

My songs and my tears, my moments and years


      G                           A       D

My strength and my burden right freely I give


       G                     C

These vows, this ring; with joy I bring


    D                G

My hand to yours so long I live.

 
  1. Lyrics © 2000, music traditional

  2. Written for the wedding of two of my friends

  3. Set to the melody “Planxty Fanny Power” with an excerpt from “Ash Grove”

  4. See below for chords

Hear the demo (MP3, 1:27):