Lyrics

The Wedding Song
Words and Music: Mark David Manders

1986 found me in Lubbock, hub city of the Lone Star state
And it was at the airport lounge that I first kissed her
How the hell was I to know my fate
She was just nineteen and wild and she had a sexy smile
And I was twenty-three going on sixteen
And the good times we shared together, Lord knows I’ve known no better
But I guess you’d a had to met her to know just what I mean
But Lubbock couldn’t hold the likes of our love, so we took off one night in May
We set our sights a just little south of El Paso, made Mexico by the break of day
We won some money at the racetrack and she smiled as she laid back
In the back seat of that taxi on the road to chase our dreams
The town of Seragosa is a poor one and a dollar can buy most anything
I slipped that judge a wrinkled pair of twenties in exchange for vows and a wedding ring
And without any hesitation she signed that wedding declaration
And you don’t have to speak Spanish, boys, to know just what that means
1986 is long forgotten, she and I split up and moved apart
But the memories that we shared down in old Mexico
Will always be alive in my heart
She was just nineteen and wild and she had a sexy smile
And I was twenty-three going on sixteen
And the good times we shared together, Lord knows I’ve known no better
But I guess you’d a had to met her to know just what I mean