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Wishing Chair: Music and Lyrics

Outlaw Wedding

(Wishing Chair)
May 18, 2005
Kiya Heartwood
Just the story of our wedding. The best day of my life.
You see I wear her ring
you want to know
what gives us the right
what authority we can show

Now I do my best for her
she does her best for me
nine years steady
we’re a family
a family

When she calls my name
the love that finds me
is stronger than your fear
stronger than the laws that bind me

Was an outlaw wedding
in a tobacco barn
one hundred friends and family
doing grievous harm
upsetting the government
breaking the law
it was the best time you ever saw

A KY hilltop
cantor father-in-law
I cried like a baby
when we said our vows
Lance’s chocolate cake
with the hula girls
wouldn’t change it for the world

CH

Don’t need your blessings
save your sermons
all your hate
can’t determine how we love
how we love

CH