A MARRIED MAN
>From the Broadway Show "Baker Street" (1965)
(Marian Grudeff / Raymond Jessel)


Peter Sallis (Broadway Production) - 1965
Richard Burton - 1965
Raymond Jessel - 2006




A married man, a married man
How wonderful to be a married man
For now I know life's purpose 
And its plan since time began


A lonely man, I took a wife
And added love and laughter to my life
And now I know there's no one richer than
A married man


With two to share each happiness
And two to bear each woe
And, oh, the woes seem so much less
And how the pleasures grow


The bachelor, the bachelor
I've lived his life and I have lived with her
Well let him keep his so-called merry life
As best he can


But as for me
I'd rather be
A happy man, contented man
A married man


With two to share each happiness
And two to bear each woe
Then, oh, the woes seem so much less
And how the pleasures grow


The bachelor, the bachelor
I've lived his life and I have lived with her
Well let him keep his so-called merry life
As best he can


But as for me
I'd rather be
A happy man, contented man
A married man






(Contributed by Shelley Botka) 
(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - October 2006)