Here comes the bride??

Hi girls. I had heard that the song, Here Comes the Bride is a death march??

Something about the lyrics saying, cutting the brides head off?

Is this true???

thats crazy! as long as I dont hear those words I am using it

LOL! That's AWFUL!!!!!!! I've never heard that before!

Wedding March
Processional

('Here Comes the Bride')
from the opera
'Lohengren'


The idea for 'Lohengren' came to Wagner in Paris while searching for new material. He had read a contemporary version of the the story of Tannhauser. This set him to work tracing to its source, the connection of this story with that of the Wartberg song contest. Thus he came to read 'Der Wartbergkrieg', which introduces the story of Lohengren. When Wagner finished this research he said, '.... an entirely new world of poetical matter
opened up before me....' . He began making sketches for his books on 'Lohengren' while still working on his production of 'Tannhauser'. It is from 'Lohengren' that one of the most famous passages in music history originates...commonly known as as 'Here Comes The Bride' or 'The Wedding March' or just 'The Bridal Chorus'. It has been a favorite since being introduced as the processional in a wedding during Civil War days. The original draft of processional 'The Wedding March' is preserved at the Karpeles Manuscript Library.
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Also preserved at the Karpeles Manuscript Library is the manuscript of

The Wedding March
recessional
from

Felix Mendelssohn's
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The fashion for playing the Wedding March recessional at weddings originates from a performance of this piece at the wedding of the English Princess Royal after Mendelssohn's death in 1858.


ALSO:

I understand the original music/song was meant to make fun of marriage thus the Wedding March has not been favorably viewed by those who hold marriage sacred. Hence other sacred music more appropriate to marriage has been recommended.

Whoops, I was wrong...this is what I found:

The so called ‘Bridal Chorus’ from Wagner’s [opera called] Lohengrin suffers from it’s association with the silly parody ‘Here comes the bride,’ but it’s fitness in a Christian service is questionable particularly in view of its origin.

It occurs in the opera after the wedding in an atmosphere of distrust and hatred that ended in death and separation.” [PRESBYTERIAN WORSHIP, 1980, John Knox Press] The groom dies and the bride weeps, all to the chorus with the ironic words “Faithful and true.'

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just did a search for the lyrics to 'here comes the bride' and this is what I got! LOLOLOLOL

Here comes the bride
Dr. Funken, with the bride

If you're married and you know what it's all about
Let's turn it out, scream it out and shout, sing

Here comes the bride
Don't you know that, it's

Hit me
The Lady Precious Funk is here
The bride of the funk so have no fear
Commiting myself to the funk for life
That's why they call me your funk Precious wife
The captain and the crew gave me away
They told me that the funk would never stray
I gotta keep the funk movin on and on
I'm Precious Funk, on your microphone!

Here comes the bride
Dr. Funken, with the bride

I'm married to the funk without a doubt
Everybody in the place say turn it out!
(Turn it out!)
Here comes the bride
Don't you know that, it's

To all you mothers standin out there
You got to give up the funk, get up out your chair
Because I am the bridge and that's a fact
I'm on a groove so smooth and so laid back
I'm gonna take the time, to talk to you
About somethin old, but oh so new
You see marriage to me is like thick and thin
A promise forever, that could never end
Ain't nothin in the world like a menu sale
to what we call lovin not nothin else
They've been doin this ever since Adam and Eve
They've been doin this, for centuries!

Here comes the bride
Dr. Funken, with the bride
Here comes the bride
Dr. Funken, with the bride
Here comes the bride
Don't you know that, it's

Get myself somethin
to hold onto
Call it funk music
and here's a little funk, just for you

Ah if a man wants me to be his wife
He better think about it first cause I'm talkin bout life
You see I'm talkin bout the good things with the bad
You see I'm talkin bout happiness with the sad
You see I'm talkin bout a thing called tender lovin care




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A man not a mouse who will always be there
Someone that I can be all my life around
To keep me up, and never let me down

The Doctor and Precious Funk got married
Y'all know what I'm talkin about?
A microphone and bass for life they carry
The Doctor and Precious stay together
Love livin and makin funk for-ever
The Doctor and Precious Funk got married
A microphone and bass for life they carry
The Doctor and Precious stay together
Love livin and makin funk for-ever

Get myself somethin
to hold onto
Call it funk music
And here's a little funk, just for you
(repeat 2X)

Here comes the bride
Dr. Funken, with the bride
Here comes the bride
Dr. Funken, with the bridge
Here comes the bride
Don't you know that, it's

I'm Blondie, world's precious ride
Don't take no stuff I got my pride
A man marry me he got to be nice
A girl like me don't come by twice
Dr. Funk, say you want me
Too hot to trot, I'm Blondie
Just sittin on the funk and ridin on the groove
Dr. Funk, you're so **** cool

I married the funk, so I could never be alone
The music, the voices, and the microphone
The stagelights, and the fancy cars
is a matrimony for superstars
The Doctor asked me to be his girl
so he could groove provides, and rock my world
Don't give me up, and don't turn me loose
Cause I'm Angie B I got all the juice

Got myself somethin
to hold onto
Call it funk music
And here's a little funk, just for you

Here comes the bride
Dr. Funken, with the bride

Here comes the bride
Don't you know that, it's

The Doctor and Precious Funk got married
A microphone and bass for life they carry
The Doctor and Precious stay together
Love livin and makin funk forever
(repeat to fade)