I Don't Wanna Be Married ( I Just Wanna Be Friends ) Lyrics - Irving Berlin

[Verse:] 

[Pickles:] 

You're compromising me 

But that's exactly as it ought to be 

I simply fell for you because I wanted to fall 

Don't speak of wedding chimes 

Because we mustn't be behind the times 

Besides a wedding isn't necessary at all 

[1st refrain:] 

Don't worry because I fell 

You don't have to do right by Nell 

'Cause I don't wanna be married, I just wanna be friends 

Don't worry 'cause I gave in 

Best of families live in sin 

'Cause they don't wanna be married, they just wanna be friends 

While all the happy married couples sit and fight 

We'll be still going strong 

And fifty million Frenchmen say it's quite alright 

And that many can't be wrong 

I never would change my name 

Even after the baby came 

'Cause I don't wanna be married, I just wanna be friends 

[2nd refrain:] 

[Joe:] 

My father would give me hell 

If I didn't do right by Nell 

But I don't wanna be married, I just wanna be friends 

Please grant me my father's wish 

Shotgun weddings are just his dish 

I don't wanna be married, I just wanna be friends 

The kiddies wouldn't like it, they'd be awfully mad 

'Twould be known near and far 

To be a little "who's-this" isn't really bad 

For some of my best friends are 

If not for the family 

Make an hon'rable man of me! 

But I don't wanna be married, I just wanna be friends