I Told You So - Maddy Prior

You said it would be romantic

That moonlighting was the thing

Eloping in a ten year old van

Fixed with string

And after all the packing

Secrecy and fuss

We never got past Watford

And we had to come home by bus

Early to bed and off to work next day

My parents never even noticed

We’d been away

But don’t say I didn’t warn you

I told you so

You were too stubborn to listen

I said you’d come unstuck

I said you’d come unglued

You wouldn’t listen to reason

A registry office marriage

I said was a mistake

Your mother laughed the whole time

And your brother cut the cake

I wanted priest and church

A proper white wedding

And a sober best man

Might not have lost the ring

Honeymoon in Norfolk

You went fishing all the time

In Majorca at least

We might have caught some sunshine

But don’t say I didn’t warn you

I told you so

You were too stubborn to listen

I said you’d come unstuck

I said you’d come unglued

You wouldn’t listen to reason

A home of our own

You turned do-it-yourself

I told you’d better be off

To leave it to somebody else

You did the plumbing

Now the cistern’s upside down

The hot water’s cold

And the cold water’s brown

Then there was the other thing

You even got that wrong

Here we are with seven kids

And we only wanted one

But don’t say I didn’t warn you

I told you so

You were too stubborn to listen

I said you’d come unstuck

I said you’d come unglued

You wouldn’t listen to reason