At Wanamaker's and Sak's
and Klein's
A lesson I've been taught
You can't get alterations
on a dress you haven't bought
At any vegetable market
from Borneo to Nome
You mustn't squeeze a melon
'til you get the melon home
You've simply got to gamble
You get no guarantee
Now doesn't that kind of
apply to you and I
You and me
Why not
Why not what
Marry the man today
Trouble though he may be
Much as he loves to play
Crazy and wild and free
Marry the man today
Rather than sigh in sorrow
Marry the man today and
change his ways tomorrow
Marry the man today
Marry the man today
Maybe he's leaving town
Maybe he's leaving town
Don't let him get away
Don't let him get away
Hurry and track him down
Counterattack him and
Marry the man today
Give him the girlish laughter
Give him your hand today
and save the fist for after
Slowly introduce him
to the better things
Respectable conservative
and clean
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Guy Lombardo
Roger's Peet
Golf
Galoshes
Ovaltine
But marry the man today
Handle it meek and gently
Marry the man today and
train him subsequently
Carefully expose him
to domestic life
And if he ever tries to
stray from you
Have a pot roast
Have a headache
Have a baby
Have two
Six
Nine
Stop
Marry the man today
Rather than sigh in sorrow
Marry the man today
and change his ways
And change his ways
And change his ways
And change his ways
and change his ways tomorrow