Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Here Comes the Bride

Here comes the bride
all fate and wide
here comes the groom
thin as a broom


Other additions include:

see how she wobbles
from side to side


And

Here's comes the usher,
the old toilet flusher


When this hit my first grade class, we outdid each other trying to make up new verses, such as "Here comes the parson / his name's Johnny Carson," which I've gotta say was pretty good. Then there was "Here comes the loop / an old piece of poop." This absolutely slayed us, and was probably the reason I spent a few years thinking there was some functionary at weddings known as "the loop."

The parody has been going around since at least the 1960s, and appeared in one of Beverly Cleary's "Ramona" books.

9 comments:

  1. Here comes the bride
    Four feet wide
    Stepped on a turtle
    And down came her girdle!

    (Thunder Bay, northwestern Ontario, 1970s)

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  2. Here comes the bride,
    All fat and wide,
    Slipped on a banana skin,
    and went for a ride!

    South Africa, (late 1960s and 1970s)

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    1. Here comes the bride
      All dressed in white
      She slipped on a banana peel
      And went for a ride!

      South Africa in the late 1980s

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  3. Here comes the bride,
    Tall, fat, and wide,
    watch her as she wobbles
    from side to side.

    My aged babysitter sang this in MA the early 1970s.

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  4. Los Angeles, 50's - 60's

    Here comes the bride
    All dressed in pink
    Open the window
    And let out the stink!

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  5. Here comes the bride
    Here comes the bride
    Where is the groom?
    He's in the bathroom!
    Why is he there?
    He's in his underwear!

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  6. Here comes the bride
    All dressed in white
    Stepped on a turtle
    And down came her girdle!

    Bit of a mashup of some others! Heard from my southern NJ cousin in maybe the late 60s?

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  7. Here comes the bride,
    Fair, fat, and wide!
    Here comes the groom,
    Skinny as a broom!
    Here comes the usher,
    The old toilet flusher!

    Wisconsin, 1980s

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  8. Here comes the bride
    All fat and wide
    Can't fit through the front door
    Has to go round the side

    Cornwall, United Kingdom 2000

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