We ain't talked in a couple years
The last time I saw him we were throwing back beer
A couple of bachelors in a town too small

For our reputations to let us stay long

I could tell that boy was never gonna change

He'd sowed his oats by now still he carried his ways
There was no point telling him to settle it down
If it was gonna happened it'd have happened by now


Until he called me late one night
Said man, are ya sittin down

I'm gonna be daddy real soon
And no I'm ain't messing around


Are ya coming to my shotgun wedding down in Jackson
Her momma's so happy but her daddy ain't laughing
Yeah I 'm trying to make it right the only way I know

We got family coming in from a hundred different ways
I gotta face em straight on and I know what they're gonna say
Man I need you here real bad can you make it down

Yeah I'm headed to a shotgun wedding way back in my hometown

I thought of all those times he'd be up all night

Chasing those skirts till the morning light
there was a girl who set a wedding date
But she went crazy or at least he'd say


So I guess his time has come
To buckle down and be a man

And I'll try hard not to laugh
at the alter if I can


Cause I'm going to a shotgun wedding down in Jackson
Her momma's so happy but her daddy ain't laughing
Yeah he's trying to make it right the only way he knows

He's got family coming in from a hundred different ways
He's gotta face em straight on and I know what they're gonna say
So I need to help the boy out and drive on down

Yeah I going to a shotgun wedding way back in my hometown



Well all our ex girlfriends were sitting in the pews
With a sigh of relief when he said I do
Then we wished them well

and we all drove on out to the lake
And there might be another shotgun wedding
If I still out too late