June Bride

LIZA
 Oh, they say when you marry in June,
 You're a bride all your life.
 SARAH
 And the bridegroom who marries in June
 Gets a sweetheart for a wife.
 RUTH
 Winter weddings can be gay
 Like a Christmas holiday.
 MARTHA
 But the June bride hears the song
 Of the spring that lasts all summer long.
 DORCAS
 By the light of the silvery moon
 Home you ride, side by side
 LIZA
 With the echo of Mendelssohn's tune
 LIZA, SARAH & ALICE
 In your hearts as you ride
 ALL BRIDES
 For they say when you marry in June,
 You will always be a bride.
 LIZA
 The day a maiden marries is a day she carries through the years
 MARTHA & DORCAS
 The Church is full of flowers, bridal showers all passe
 ALL BRIDES
 The groom's waiting at the altar, here comes the bride,
 They're each promising to love and obey.
 LIZA
 There's madness celebrating
 Every bridesmaid waiting
 Just to see which one of them will catch the wedding bouquet.
 ALL BRIDES
 For they say when you marry in June,
 You will always, always, always, be a bride.
 ALICE, SARAH & DORCAS
 In November, the snow starts to fly,
 Piling up, ankle-high.
 LIZA, MARTHA & RUTH
 Come December, it's up to your knee,
 Still a bride's a bride-to-be.
 ALL BRIDES
 January, higher still,
 To the parlor window sill.
 MILLY
 February finds a drift
 And the storm that seems never to lift.
 LIZA, SARAH & DORCAS
 March comes in like a lion, what else?
 Still the snow never melts.
 LIZA & ALICE
 April showers will come, so they say.
 LIZA
 But they don't, and it's May.
 ALL BRIDES
 You're about to forget the whole thing,
 All at once, one day, it's Spring.