1st verse:]

Before you get married your sweetheart is your sweetheart to the dot

But after you marry, your sweetheart, girls

Becomes your sweetheart not

Of course there are many exceptions

To most ev'ry rule, but then

In this very case, any time, any place

Eleven times out of ten



[chorus:]

After the honeymoo-oon

After the honeymoon

I'll wager my life there are millions of men

Who wish that their wives were their sweethearts again

After it's Mister and Missus

There's often a year between kisses

A sweet wedding cake only gives you an ache

After the honeymoon



[2nd verse:]

Before your engagement you want your love to stand and stand around

But after the wedding, it changes to

"For goodness sake sit down!"

You want who you want in the summer

You get who you want that fall

But after you've got who you wanted, it's not

The one whom you wanted at all