Oh, Marianne

Please don't marry that insurance man





I just saw your picture in the paper

Surrounded by extensive wedding plans


Tell me this is just one of your capers


Say you haven't met with their demands




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Oh, Marianne

Love talks cheap and faster than I can


Oh, Marianne


Please don't marry that insurance man




I can't see you packing up his lunches


I can't see you diapering his son

You're the girl who always played her hunches


So how'd you figure out that this was one




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I'm not saying I grew up in love with you

I'm sayin', "Why grow up at all?"





So tell that Hoosier boy to put on clean socks

And the finest double-knits that he can wear


'Cause when that invitation hits my mailbox


I'll see you at his funeral, my dear




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