Come Haste to the Wedding

DESCRIPTION: "Come haste to the wedding, ye friends and ye neighbors, The lovers their bliss can no longer delay... Come see rural felicity, which love and innocence ever enjoy." The life of the married couple should bring all people together
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1867 (MeetMeInTheLaneSongster)
KEYWORDS: marriage nonballad
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REFERENCES (5 citations):
MeetMeInTheLaneSongster, p. 29, "Come Haste to the Wedding" (1 text)
Chapman-Sisters-Songster, p. 64, "Come Haste to the Wedding" (1 text)
Little-Maggie-May-Songster, p. 44, "Come, Haste to the Wedding" (1 text)
Up-In-a-Balloon-Songster, p. 13, "Come, Haste to the Wedding" (1 text)
DT, HASTEWED*
Roud #8503
NOTES [44 words]: Most of the discussions of this text seem to assume that it is the same song as the well-known fiddle tune "Haste to the Wedding." That might explain why such a piece of flowery treacle has survived, but I haven't seen it proved, so I have not linked the two. - RBW
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