I'm Not Getting Married

There's a girl I used to know

She was younger than the springtime

And she took my heart clean away

But one day she said, "Let's go

We can buy a silver ring

And get married a week from today"

But I said, "I'm not getting married

I'm never getting married

'Cause I'm not the marrying kind"

I've been called an awful lot

But a groom is what I'm not

Oh no, I'm not the marrying kind

When I looked into her eyes

I could see that she was crying

And oh, what a heel I had been

And I didn't realize

At the time I said goodbye

Just how much my decision would mean

When I said, "I'm not getting married

I'm never getting married

'Cause I'm not the marrying kind"

So I packed things that day

Bound for places far away

No, no, I'm not the marrying kind

Oh well, I traveled far and wide

But I tired of my freedom

And went home to see how she'd been

But I'd been away so long

That when I went to see to her

Her ma said that married she'd been

When I said, "I'm not getting married

I'm never getting married

'Cause I'm not the marrying kind"

If that girl can't be my wife

Then I'm about your love for life

Oh no, I'm not the marrying kind