Ron Pope – A Wedding In Connecticut (Ukulele)

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There was a pretty girl

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from some small suburb of Dallas

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and she came up to New York with a dream

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In the confusion and the noise

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all of her beauty and her poise

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turned grey like snow beside the city street

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she met a boy named Steven

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they made love in his apartment

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in a second story walk up out in Queens

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and the things she hoped to find

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beneath him on that August night

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was the farthest thing from her

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as she dressed to leave

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so she hides her eyes

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says a slow goodbye

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swears by the morn-ing light, she'll be fine

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at a wedding in Connecticut

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the mother of the bride

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day dreams about her husband who's just past

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as she stands to give her toast

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she says the only thing i know

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is when you find a love thats worth it

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make it last

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so she chokes back the tears

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and speaks of all her daughters years

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thirty christmas' of memories that she keeps

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and the speech was sad and sweet

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she kisses guests as they all leave

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then heads off to her hotel room to weep   

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so she bides  her time

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and says a slow  goodbye

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swears by the morn-ing light, she'll be fine

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yeah she hides  her eyes

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though its hard  some nights

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she'll take her own   sweet time, she'll be fine

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A welder who spent twenty years

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working in an auto plant

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gets laid off on a thursday afternoon

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and he grips the fourty-five

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that rests in the glove box when he drives

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then puts the gun away and wonders what to do

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so he parks in his driveway

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and head against the steering wheel

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and tries to think what to tell his wife

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and in the kitchen, he explains

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and swears they'll be okay

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she says, you're the only thing i need in this life

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so he bides his time

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and says a slow goodbye

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swears by the morn-ing light, he'll be fine

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yes he hides  his eyes

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though its hard some nights

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he'll take his own sweet time, and he'll be fine