A Bright Day Lyrics

Come daughter take the son in hand come husband take the wife

To have and hold the other through both harmony and strife

For richer or for poorer and in sickness or in health

For better or for worse the vows endure

Now gather friends and family come witnesses to love

As mothers and their sires have since the waters and the dove

And fasten here with kinship bonds a link between two homes

All binded up in lovers' oaths and strengthened by your own

It's a bright, bright day for a wedding

For cotton clouds

For golden sun

It's a bright, bright day for a wedding

For two to join as one

There are covenants 'tween god and man and oaths to feudal lords

Contracts, wills and testaments and treaties and accords

But there's no promise greater than a bond that's forged in love

And beaten in a simple golden ring

Wherever unknown paths appear whenever you might go

Through trials and tribulations that the distant future holds

The little ring remind you of the love that you have won

There'll always be another's arms to shelter you from harm

It's a bright, bright day for a wedding

For cotton clouds

For golden sun

It's a bright, bright day for a wedding

For two to join as one

When the best lack all conviction, when the worst are filled with fire

When armies roll across the land like smoke from funeral pyres

When prophets are forgotten and the poets all used up

To peddle wares and script the circus rings

When gluttony's a virtue and when greed's worn like a crown

The best that you can hope for is to keep the love you've found

Together in defiance of a world beyond control

And rise above its cruelty when you pledge your heart and soul

It's a bright, bright day for a wedding

For cotton clouds

For golden sun

It's a bright, bright day for a wedding

For two to join as one

Now the groom he looks so dandy in his pressed and tailored clothes

The bride is beauty's image in her dress as white as snow

The celebrant invokes the names our hearts most dearly hold

And bids the lovers speak the sacred words

The mothers they are wiping tears from wet and sated eyes

The bridesmaids are all dreaming of the next phase of their lives

While songs of cheer and laughter like the wine so freely flow

In glasses raised to celebrate the greatest joy I know

It's a bright, bright day for a wedding

For cotton clouds

For golden sun

It's a bright, bright day for a wedding

For two to join as one