Wedding Morning

from Evangeline by Bethan Le Mas

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To have all the early-20th century social and family stigma of being pregnant before your wedding day - and then for the groom to be absent, away in the trenches, returning only to be married and then leaving you again, perhaps never to return - doesn't sound like every little girl's dream.

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It's wedding day, wedding day!
Wedding day six months too late
How you gonna lie, tired and grey,
In the bed you've made?

Mother fixed me up a marriage drawer
Silks and sheets and jewellery
All half filled 'fore I was four
And ritually shown to me

What a fine thing it is, to be a wife! To be a mother
What a fine thing it is to love another! (Always in these binds.
I find her words still often come to mind)

1 Corinthians 7:2
Don't give what you can't afford to lose
But in the end I didn't choose
For there to be a war

It's wedding day, wedding day!
Wasn't meant to be this way
Him on necessary leave
And me grown strangely overweight

What a fine thing it is, to be a wife! To be a mother
What a fine thing it is to have a lover gone to war
And a babe ripe to be born
And your own mother sobbing cruelly
Over silks and sheets and jewellery

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from Evangeline, released June 5, 2020
Written by Bethan le Masurier. Organ part co-written by Ben Hughes.
Vocals, guitar, harp, cello and organ performed by Bethan le Masurier.
Produced by Bethan le Masurier.

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Bethan Le Mas England, UK

I am a British singer-songwriter, playing piano, guitar, cello,Celtic harp, ukulele, and whatever else I can get my hands on. Livestreaming on twitch.tv/cornyears

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