When a Girl Becomes a Wife

You asked me if I'd marry you and I believe I can

Though I'm just a young girl they say you're a decent man

I've been raised by mom and daddy with a lot of love around

And that's something I can't live without when I move in to town

You must give me everything I had when I was home

The things I was accoustomed to some treasures of my own

All the things that daddy give me have become a way of life

It's not too much to ask when a girl becomes a wife

I'll need a featherbed to lay on for my flower bed a hoe

A churn to make fresh butter and I'll need a radio

A gingham dress for Sundays and my legs cannot be bare

A petticoat with ruffles and some ribbons for my hair

Pretty curtains for my kitchen iron skillets that I'll need

A swing out on the front porch and a Bible I can read

I know you'll be like daddy when a baby comes in time

You'll surely build a cradle and learn a nursery rhyme

I'll try to be like mama not a woman of the world

And we'll live in love together with our little boy or girl

I'll need a featherbed to lay on for my flower bed a hoe

A churn to make fresh butter and I'll need a radio

A gingham dress for Sundays and my legs cannot be bare

A petticoat with ruffles and some ribbons for my hair

Pretty curtains for my kitchen iron skillets that I'll need

A swing out on the front porch and a Bible I can read