"Get Me To The Church On Time" is a song featured in the 1964 film My Fair Lady with music written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. The song is sung by the cockney character Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway), the father of the one of the show's two main characters, Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn). He has received a surprise bequest of four thousand pounds a year from an American millionaire, raising him to middle class respectability. Consequently, he feels he must marry Eliza's "stepmother", the woman with whom he has been living for many years. Doolittle and his friends have one last spree before the wedding and the song is a plea to his friends not to let his drunken merriment forget his good intentions and make sure he gets to his wedding.
Lyrics[]
Jamie, Harry:
There's just a few more hours
That's all the time you've got
A few more hours
Before they tie the knot
Doolittle:
There are drinks and girls all over London,
and I've gotta track 'em down in just a few more hours
I'm getting married in the morning
Ding dong! The bells are gonna chime
Pull out the stopper, let's have a whopper
But get me to the church on time
I gotta be there in the mornin'
Spruced up and lookin' in me prime
Girls, come and kiss me;
Show how you'll miss me
But get me to the church on time
If I am dancin'
Roll up the floor
If I am whistlin'
Whewt me out the door
For I'm gettin' married in the mornin'
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime
Kick up a rumpus but don't lose the compass;
And get me to the church, get me to the church,
For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
All:
I'm getting married in the morning
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Doolittle:
Drug me or jail me
Stamp me and mail me.
All:
But get 'im to the church on time!
'E's gotta be there in the morning
Spruced up and lookin' in 'is prime.
Doolittle:
Some bloke who's able
Lift up the table,
All:
And get 'im to the church on time!
Doolittle:
If I am flying
Then shoot me down.
If I am wooin',
Get her out of town!
All:
For 'e's getting married in the morning!
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Doolittle:
Feather and tar me;
Call out the Army
But get me to the church.
All:
Get 'im to the church...
Doolittle:
For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
All:
Starlight is reelin' home to bed now
Mornin' is smearin' up the sky
London is wakin', daylight is breakin'
Good luck, old chum, good health, goodbye
Doolittle:
I'm gettin' married in the mornin'
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime
Hail and salute me, then haul off and boot me
And get me to the church, get me to the church
For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
