Marriage

"If No One Ever Marries Me"


(Friends, I want to share this old 19th century poem with you.  Natalie Merchant has recorded it in her musical genius.  This weekend I watched her Ted Talk, featuring various 19th century poems, ending with her hit song Thank You.  Thank you, Bob Gates, she sang.  I am a huge Natalie Merchant fan- her on stage presence is unusual and captivating.  Her voice is one of my favorites of all time.  She wrote one of my anthem songs, "Where I Go"- "go to the river to soothe my mind, ponder over the crazy days of my life.  Watch the river flow..."
Now I can't get another song out of my head.  It touches me at a deep level of hope, sadness, and peace.)


Well if no one ever marries me
And I don't see why they should
Nurse says I'm not pretty
And you know I'm seldom good, seldom good

Well if no one ever marries me
I shan't mind very much
Buy a squirrel in a cage
And a little rabbit-hutch

No one marries me
If no one marries me
No one marries me
If no one marries me
Well if no one marries me

I'll have a cottage near a wood
And a pony all my own
A little lamb quite clean and tame
That I can take to town

When I'm really getting old
At twenty-eight or nine
I'll buy myself a little orphan-girl
And bring her up as mine

No one marries me
If no one marries me
No one marries me
If no one marries me
If no one marries me
Marries me
Well if no one marries me
Marries me
If no one marries me