For our first time together I wanted everything to be just right I prayed for good weather For we were going to a concert in the park that night I wanted violins and sweet romantic melodies
But when the band began to play It didn't turn out quite that way For there were trumpets and trombones making sad sounds and glad tones And notes that I will never understand And there were tin horns and oboes and saxophone solos Now you know and I know love is like a big brass band
We wasted no time now, we planned a wedding for the first of June Hear the wedding bells chime now And see the folks all watching for the bridge and groom Waiting for violins and sweet romantic melodies
But when we started down the aisle You should have seen the preacher smile For there were trumpets and trombones making sad sounds and glad tones And notes that I will never understand And there were tin horns and oboes and saxophone solos Now I know and you know love is like a big brass band
