Pigeons

Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
 Well, the pigeons ate the wedding rice
 And exploded somewhere over San Antonio
 I picked up the newlyweds and asked them
 Where they wanted to go
 They said "We don't care, we don't know, anywhere, just go"
 Ever since I'd gotten married I started working weddings
 Driving this long white limo
 They'd had their ceremony in Brackettville
 At that phony Alamo
 We were 30 miles from the border of Mexico
 Well, they're in the back laughing about some uncle named Jack
 Who got too drunk, and during his speech
 The tears started to flow
 Well, they seemed like a match
 So I stopped looking for cracks in their road and just drove
 Outside of Concan, the groom noticed the gold band on my left hand
 And said "You got any advice for us, old man?"
 Well, I thought for a mile as I drove with a smile
 And I said, "When you are dating you only see each other
 And the rest of us can go to hell
 But when you are married, you're married to the whole wide world
 The rich, the poor
 The sick and the well
 The straights and the gays
 And the people that say 'We don't use these terms these days'
 The salt and the soil"
 After I'd said my piece
 We drove on in silence for a spell
 How my words had gone over, well, I couldn't tell
 Potent advice or preachy as hell
 But when I see people about to marry
 I become something of a plenipotentiary
 I just think it's good, as you probably can tell
 When two atoms from the Big Bang
 Get back together with the old gang
 I drop them at a fancy dancy boutique hotel
 And I drive off alone, but I'm not alone
 Sincerely, L. Cohen