MADRIGAL WEDDING

UW 1990

In madrigal choir

Two young singers fell in love

Kind of a nice environment for that 

Music

Harmonies

Turns out they wanted a quartet to perform

at their wedding

We were seated up front

Where the choir would sit on Sunday

Dressed all nice

There was a drum set out front

It had a skull and cross bones on it

in a church

That's odd

Shrug my shoulders

I'm just there to sing my madrigal song

We sing it

It's nice

The acoustics in the church are lovely

We sit back down

In front of everyone

"Next, will be a procession performed on the drums by the brother of the groom."

What's that going to be I wonder?

A young man

Decked out in Tuxedo

sits down 

in front of the skull and cross bones

takes a breath

and

Lays out a huge heavy metal drum solo

Bakoom bakoom bakoom BAKOOM

splash splash SPLASH

Diga Diga SLAM

It goes on for a while

then he steps up, lifts his sticks and walks away

SILENCE

I start to feel that feeling

You know the one

Where you know you are not supposed to laugh

but

it wells and you have to laugh

The people in the pews

are stone cold tight lipped

Sitting up front

My shoulders start to shake

I can't hold it back

My shoulders quiver more

I'm sitting tight

next to my quartet

and my shaking

gets them shaking

and I burst out loud

BAHA

That too echoes

We gather ourselves

It was a very nice ceremony

but I think I'd prefer not to sit in front again
Drum solo WAS tight though