Don't Marry Her

"Don't Marry Her" is a song by The Beautiful South and the opening track on their album Blue is the Colour. Vocalist Jacqui Abbott begs a man to run away with her from the woman he is going to marry, and attempts to sway him by describing what she thinks married life with the other woman will be like, painting a very uninviting picture. The song contains profanities on the album version, but a cleaner version was released for radio. This version substituted the name of the actress Sandra Bullock for the phrase 'sweaty bollocks' as well as 'have me' at the end of each chorus rather than 'fuck me'.

The song spent ten weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #8.

The "clean" single version appears on the best of album Solid Bronze: Great Hits.


The Beautiful South
  • Paul Heaton
  • Dave Hemingway
  • Sean Welch
  • Dave Stead
  • David Rotheray
  • Briana Corrigan
  • Jacqui Abbott
  • Alison Wheeler
Studio albums
  • Welcome to the Beautiful South
  • Choke
  • 0898 Beautiful South
  • Miaow
  • Blue Is the Colour
  • Quench
  • Painting It Red
  • Gaze
  • Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs
  • Superbi
Compilation albums
  • Carry on up the Charts
  • Solid Bronze: Great Hits
  • Gold
  • Soup
Singles
  • "Song For Whoever"
  • "You Keep It All In"
  • "I'll Sail This Ship Alone"
  • "A Little Time"
  • "My Book"
  • "Let Love Speak Up Itself"
  • "Old Red Eyes Is Back"
  • "We Are Each Other"
  • "Bell Bottomed Tear"
  • "36D"
  • "Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)"
  • "Everybody's Talkin'"
  • "Prettiest Eyes"
  • "One Last Love Song"
  • "Dream a Little Dream"
  • "Pretenders to the Throne"
  • "Rotterdam (or Anywhere)"
  • "Don't Marry Her"
  • "Blackbird on the Wire"
  • "Liars' Bar"
  • "Perfect 10"
  • "Dumb"
  • "How Long's a Tear Take to Dry?"
  • "The Table"
  • "Closer than Most"
  • "The River/Just Checkin'"
  • "The Root of All Evil"
  • "Just a Few Things That I Ain't"
  • "Let Go with the Flow"
  • "Livin' Thing"
  • "This Old Skin"
  • "This Will Be Our Year"
  • "Manchester"
  • "The Rose of My Cologne"
Related articles
  • Discography
  • The Housemartins

Famous quotes containing the word marry:

    “Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)