Nobody's Wedding Lyrics

Everybody came to nobody's wedding
Everybody knew it was bound to be a hoot
What can you do when nothing else is cooking
You make your own amusement, bring a pile of loot

There was Alice the butcher, Tidy and Gunn
Who couldn't see where they were heading
It was sixteen days and sixteen nights
And it weren't even nobody's wedding

"What a great reception", all the people cried
Who stole the groom and who stole the bride
How did the countess slide underneath the door
Why is the wild boy chopping up the floor?

There was Alice the butcher, Tidy and Gunn
Who couldn't see where they were heading
It was sixteen days and sixteen nights
And it weren't even nobody's wedding

I didn't hear the sound of the tin cans rattle
I didn't hear a teardrop, I didn't hear a prattle
Didn't hear the words of the bible being read
When it's nobody's wedding, nobody's wed

There was Alice the butcher, Tidy and Gunn
Who couldn't see where they were heading
It was sixteen days and sixteen nights
And it weren't even nobody's wedding

Richard Thompson - Watching The Dark: The History of Richard Thompson

May 1993

1. A Man In Need
2. Crash The Party
3. Bird In God's Garden / Lost And Found
4. Now Be Thankful
5. A Sailor's Life
6. Genesis Hall
7. The Knife-Edge
8. Walking On A Wire
9. Small Town Romance
10. Shepherd's March / Maggie Cameron
11. Wall Of Death
12. For Shame Of Doing Wrong
13. Back Street Slide
14. Strange Affair
15. Borrowed Time
16. From Galway To Graceland
17. Bogie's Bonnie Belle
18. Poor Wee Jockey Clarke
19. Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair
20. Dimming Of The Day
21. Old Man Inside A Young Man
22. Never Again
23. Hokey Pokey (The Ice Cream Song)
24. A Heart Needs A Home
25. Beat The Retreat
26. Al Bowlly's In Heaven
27. Walking Through A Wasted Land
28. When The Spell Is Broken
29. Little Blue Number
30. I Ain't Going To Drag My Feet No More
31. Withered And Died
32. Nobody's Wedding
33. The Poor Ditching Boy
34. The Great Valerio
35. Twisted
36. Calvary Cross
37. Jennie
38. Shoot Out The Lights