I Gave My Wedding Dress Away Song Lyrics and Chords
I Gave My Wedding Dress Away Song Lyrics and Chords by Kitty Wells
I Gave My Wedding Dress Away
Recorded by Kitty Wells
Written by Fred Rose and Hy Heath
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Tomorrow was to
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be my wedding
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day
But
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I gave my wedding dress
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away
Another will be
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holding my bou
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quet
So
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I gave my wedding dress
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away
My
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baby sister
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wanted him and
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so she took my
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place
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It's worth a broken
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heart to see the smile upon her
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face
I've
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cared for her since
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mother went
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away
So
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I gave my wedding dress
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Spoken:
Everything I ever
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wanted she always wanted too
And maybe
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giving in to her was not the thing to do
I always
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let her have her way perhaps I wasn't strong
But I
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was all she had to turn to when anything went wrong
She's all I had to live for
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she's all the joy I ever
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had
And though she's hurt me many times she
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really isn't bad
I saw the love light in her
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eyes the day she met my Jim
Then I knew that he belonged to
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her and she belonged to
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him
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I could win him
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back again our
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love would be
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divine
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I could never
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break her heart the way that she broke
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mine
I'll
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worship him
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until my dying
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day
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I gave my wedding dress
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away
FAQ
Who sang the the song I Gave My Wedding Dress Away?
- The song I Gave My Wedding Dress Away was sang by Kitty Wells.
Who is Kitty Wells?
- Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 - July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American pioneering female country music singer. She broke down a barrier to women in country music with her 1952 hit recording "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", which also made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts and turned her into the first female country superstar. “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels†would also be her first of several pop crossover hits. Wells is the only artist to be awarded top female vocalist awards for 14 consecutive years. Her chart-topping hits continued until the mid 1960s, paving the way for and inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s.
Wells ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of the Billboard country charts, according to historian Joel Whitburn's book The Top 40 Country Hits. In 1976, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1991, Wells became the third country music artist, after Roy Acuff and Hank Williams, and the eighth woman to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Wells' success and influence on country music garnered her the title "Queen of Country Music".
