Part 1 — WILL NOBODY MARRY ME?

A COMIC SONG.

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BY GEORGE P. MORRIS.

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Heigh-ho! for a husband!—heigh-ho!

There’s danger in longer delay⁠!—

Shall I never again have a beau?

Will nobody marry me, pray?

I begin to feel strange, I declare!

With beauty my prospects will fade!⁠—

I’d give myself up to despair

If I thought I should die an old maid!

I once cut the beaux in a huff!⁠—

I thought it a sin and a shame

That no one had spirit enough

To ask me to alter my name!

So I turned up my nose at the short,

And rolled up my eyes at the tall;

But then I just did it in sport,

And now I’ve no lover at all!

These men are the plague of my life!⁠—

’Tis hard from so many to choose!⁠—

Should one of them wish for a wife,

Could I have the heart to refuse?

I don’t know—for none have proposed!

Oh, dear me!—I’m frightened, I vow!

Good gracious!—whoever supposed

That I should be single till now?