[Dora:]
Now I have married you, Sir!
[Nancy:]
Now I have married you, Madam!
[Dora:]
We'll be a pair such as were ne'er
Heard of since Eve and her Adam.
[Nancy:]
Just as oases occur,
[Dora:]
Out in the wilderness arid,
[Nancy:]
We shall display, what is the way,
How to be happy though married.
I will come home to tea,
[Dora:]
I'll make the tea for you,
[Nancy:]
I may be late, seven or eight,
[Dora:]
I will sit up till half past two,
[Kate:]
If I return at three--
[Nancy:]
Flushed with unruly mirth,
[Dora:]
Never you fear, I'll laugh with you dear,
[Both:]
The happiest pair on earth.
[Dora:]
If you should look at a maid,
[Nancy:]
If I have carelessly kiss'd her,
[Dora:]
I am not hard, I can regard
Any such girl as a sister!
[Nancy:]
I too shall not be dismay'd,
[Kate:]
Though at a man you may wink so,
[Dora:]
You're very kind, if you don't mind
How to be happy, I think so.
[Nancy:]
I'll never beat my wife--
[Dora:]
I'll never scold my boy!
[Nancy:]
If other chaps like her, perhaps,
That will not spoil her husband's joy.
[Dora:]
So we will pass our life
[Nancy:]
Flirting for all we're worth,
[Dora:]
Merry at heart and always apart,
[Both:]
The happiest pair on earth.
The happiest pair, the happiest pair,
Ah! Ah! Ah! The happiest pair,
The happiest pair on earth.