MOMMY MARRIED DADDY

I wrote these lyrics on the back of an envelope while on an airplane going to California to visit my Mother’s first cousin who is one of the most remarkable people I know.  It was during a one hour layover in Las Vegas that this song occurred to me.

(MOMMY MARRIED DADDY)

At Sunday school our preacher asked the children

“Do you know about the day your parents wed?”

A little hand went up, the preacher smiled

And we both said a prayer

As this is what our only child said

 (Chorus)

Mommy married Daddy in Las Vegas

In a chapel owned by someone called ‘The King’

To the sound of ‘Love Me Tender’

They stood up and said ‘I do’

Then they listened to that Elvis Preacher sing

Daddy first met Mommy in Las Vegas

He drove there for the weekend in his car

There was this little place where

He would have himself a drink

And watch Mommy as she danced up on the bar

(Chorus)

When Mommy first met Daddy in Las Vegas

Love made her just as bold as she could be

She walked up to his table

When her dancing act was done

And said: “Sailor would you like some company?”

When Daddy first met Mommy in Las Vegas

He was bashful in his younger days, I think

But Mommy broke the ice

When she little up a cigarette

And said: “Won’t you buy a working girl a drink?”

(Chorus)

When Daddy married Mommy in Las Vegas

They decided then and there to move away

They packed the car that night

And did not wait to say goodbye

And I was born just six months later to the day

Well, our preacher smiled, and you could hear a pin drop

He thanked our boy for telling what he knew

When our son said: “Wait, there’s more

I know other stories too

The preacher said: “No, little Elvis, that’ll do.”

(Chorus)

© 2000 Dale Petley (Los Angeles)