I put on my tuxedo, pacin' in the parlor

Waitin' for the taxi, got to pay him a dollar

To take me on a church ride

You know I have to be on time

'Cause I promised Margaret

I would be in the chapel by quarter to nine



Everyone knows of the flower that grows

Up through a crack in the street

Who would have thought that I would be caught

With flowers and shaky knees?

Who would ever think that I would marry Margaret?

Who would ever think that she would marry me?



She was like a mornin', waitin' for sunrise

Talkin' with her mother, fixing daddy's bow tie

She got somethin' about her

Turned this head of mine

So I married Margaret in a rented tuxedo

In the church at a quarter to nine



Everyone knows of the flower that grows

Up through a crack in the street

Who would have thought that I would be caught

With flowers and shaky knees?

Who would ever think that I would marry Margaret?

Who would ever think that she would marry me?



Everyone knows of the flower that grows

Up through a crack in the street

But who would have thought that I would be caught

With flowers and shaky knees?

Who would ever think that I would marry Margaret?

Who would ever think that she would marry me?