Get Me to the Church on Time

"Get Me to the Church on Time" is a song composed by Frederick Loewe, with lyrics written by Alan Jay Lerner for the 1956 musical My Fair Lady, where it was introduced by Stanley Holloway.

"Get Me to the Church on Time"
Song
Released1956 (1956) in My Fair Lady
GenreMusical theatre
Composer(s)Frederick Loewe
Lyricist(s)Alan Jay Lerner
Track listing
Act I
Act II

It is sung by the cockney character Alfred P. Doolittle, the father of the one of the show's two main characters, Eliza Doolittle. He has received a surprise bequest of four thousand pounds a year from an American millionaire, raising him to middle class respectability.[1] 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.[2]

Covers and parodies

Notable recordings

References
  1. Get Me To The Church On Time. SongFacts.com. Accessed June 3, 2012.
  2. Lerner Alan Jay: My Fair Lady - The libretto. Penguin Books
  3. Sesame Street Episode 3609 Street Story
  4. "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
  5. "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 3, 2017.


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