When a merry maiden marries, br Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries; br Every sound becomes a song, br All is right and nothing's wrong! br From to-day and ever after br Let your tears be tears of laughter - br Every sigh that finds a vent br Be a sigh of sweet content! br When you marry merry maiden, br Then the air with love is laden; br Every flower is a rose, br Every goose becomes a swan, br Every kind of trouble goes br Where the last year's snows have gone; br Sunlight takes the place of shade br When you marry merry maid! br br When a merry maiden marries br Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries; br Every sound becomes a song, br All is right, and nothing's wrong.