One Last Night of Freedom

[intro]
(Ooh-wah, ooh-wah, ring the bell...)

[verse]
Remember when we met him in the smoking area
Wearing someone else's coat and someone else's hat
He borrowed twenty quid and never gave it back
Now he's trading all that in for a wife and a flat

[chorus]
One last night of freedom, pour the man a drink
He's saying "I do" Sunday, tonight he won't think
His mum's already crying, his dad's already gone
So we'll sing this boy down the aisle with our dignity gone

[verse]
We booked him karaoke, he chose a power ballad
Now his fiancée's ringing and we've hidden the phone
He's dancing on a table with a traffic cone
By Saturday we'll return him in reasonably decent shape — alone

[chorus]
One last night of freedom, pour the man a drink
He's saying "I do" Sunday, tonight he won't think
His mum's already crying, his dad's already gone
So we'll sing this boy down the aisle with our dignity gone

[bridge]
(Barbershop breakdown:)
And if she asks about the strip club — we were at the chippy
And if she asks about the bruises — it was Ping-Pong, it was
And when he staggers up the aisle with his tie on crooked
We'll be crying in the second row — brothers to the end

[chorus]
One last night of freedom, one last happy hour
He found the only woman who could stand him this long
So raise your glass to trouble, and to coming home
She's the best thing that ever happened to this walking wrong

[outro]
(Ooh-wah, ooh-wah...)
Here's to the groom, here's to the wife
Here's to the rest of his beautiful life
(Here's to the rest of his beautiful life...)