[Chorus A:]
How do you do?
[Chorus B:]
And you, my dear?
[Chorus A:]
You rode, no doubt,
[Chorus B:]
I came by post.
[Chorus A:]
All the world and his wife are here,
[Chorus B:]
Sir Miles is such a capital host.
[Chorus A:]
But isn't it pleasant, bright and gay!
[Chorus B:]
And isn't a wedding like this romantic!
[Chorus A:]
I'm told that they only met today,
[All:]
And already their love...
[Basses:]
Already their love...
[Tenors:]
their love is something frantic.
[All:]
Such wealth, such luxury, such display
I never saw in my life before,
A daughter's not married ev'ry day,
I only wish he'd a dozen more.
[Ladies:]
Did you ever feel such a nipping cold?
If my nose is red, it will not be strange.
[Basses:]
I fear the frost is going to hold,
No hunting now till the moon shall change.
[Ladies:]
Did you ever know such a fearful road?
It was ice and snow to the very gate.
[Men:]
The snow's at fault if we are rather late,
if we are rather late.
[All:]
Such wealth, such luxury, such display
I never saw in my life before,
A daughter's not married ev'ry day,
I only wish he'd a dozen more.
A daughter's not married ev'ry day,
I wish he'd a dozen more.