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it wouldn't make so much difference.

Oh.

Suppose I was to say to you

that I'd marry you.

You?

That scares you, don't it?

You're thinking about what that cop said.

No. Why, I never paid

no mind to what he said.

Well, you wouldn't marry

a fella like me anyway, would you?

Yes, I would...

If I loved you.

Why, it wouldn't make

any difference what you...

Even if I died for it.

Nah.

How do you know what you'd do

if you loved me,

how you'd feel or anything?

I don't know how I'd know.

But I know how it would be...

If I loved you.

But you don't.

No, I don't.

But somehow I ken see

Jest exactly how I'd be

If I loved you

Time and again I would try to say

All I'd want you to know

If I loved you

Words wouldn't come in an easy way

Round in circles I go!

Longin' to tell you

But afraid and shy

I let my golden chances

Pass me by!

Soon you'd leave me

Off you would go in the mist of day

Never, never

To know

How I loved you

If

I loved you!

Well, anyway, you don't love me.

That's what you said, wasn't it?

Yes.

I can smell them. Can you?

The blossoms.

The wind brings them down.

There ain't much wind tonight. Hardly any.

You can't hear a sound

Not the turn of a leaf

Nor the fall of a wave

hittin' the sand

The tide's creepin' up

on the beach like a thief

Afraid to be caught

stealin' the land

On a night like this

I start to wonder

What life

Is all about

And I always say two heads

are better than one

To figger it out

I don't need you or anyone to help me.

I've got it figured out for myself.

What are we?

Just a couple of specks of nothing.

Look up there.

Why you can't even count

the stars in the sky

And the sky's so big

the sea looks small

And two little people you and I

We don't count at all

You're a funny kid.

I don't remember ever

meeting a girl like you.

Hey, you trying to get me to marry you?

- No.

- Well, then what's putting it into my head?

- I wonder what it would be like.

- If you loved me?

But you don't.

No, I don't.

But somehow I can see

Just exactly how I'd be

If I loved you

Time and again I would try to say

All I'd want you

To know

If I loved you

Words wouldn't come in an easy way

Round in circles

I'd go!

Longin' to tell you

But afraid and shy

I'd let my golden chances

Pass me by!

Soon you'd leave me

Off you would go in the mist of day

Never, never

To know

How I loved you

If

I loved you!

Well, anyway, I...

I ain't the kind of a fella

to marry anybody.

Even if a girl was foolish

enough to want me to, I wouldn't.

Don't worry about it, Billy.

Who's worried?

You're right about there being no wind.

The blossoms are just

coming down by theirselves.

It's just their time to, I reckon.

Well, you being Julie's only kinfolk,

I thought you'd want to know.

Ain't seen that barker

from the carousel neither.

He got bounced too.

- If you ain't got any better than them...

- Oh, I got better. I got better.

It could be accidental,

them both disappearing at the same time.

All the same, it does look a might peculiar.

Nobody in our family ever did anything

to be ashamed of, Clem Hoops.

Now, you just find me

a couple of good, big lobsters or get!

Cousin Nettie!

Julie, Julie.

Julie. Oh, I'm so glad to see you.

- I was wondering where you been.

- I been getting married, Cousin Nettie.

This is my husband, Billy Bigelow.

- Your husband?

- It's a fact, Nettie.

Look.

- It's pretty.

- Solid gold plated.

I'm pleased to know you, Mr. Bigelow.

And I wish you both

all the happiness in the world.

I'd have said it sooner,

but it's kind of a surprise.

It takes a little getting used to.

Me, I never got used to it.

I just couldn't get

the hang of being married.

Was that Julie's fault?

I didn't say that.

But maybe it wasn't my fault either.

There was only one carousel in town.

I couldn't go back there.

- I didn't have a job.

- What did you live on?

Her cousin Nettie.

- To be perfectly honest with you,

I tried... - I would be if I were you.

All right.

I didn't mind living off her cousin Nettie.

It was... It was just having nothing to do

that drove me crazy.

Well, a couple of months went by.

Then it was June.

Everybody was getting ready

for the first clambake of the season.

Excepting Julie and me,

everybody was having

themselves a whale of a time.

June is bustin' out all over!

All over the meadow and the hill!

Buds're bustin' outa bushes

And the rompin' river pushes

Every little wheel that

wheels beside a mill

June is bustin' out all over

The ocean is full of

Jacks and Jills!

With her little tail a-swishin'

Every lady fish is wishin'

That a male would come

and grab her by the gills!

Because it's June!

June, June, June

Jest because it's June June June

Fresh and alive and gay and young

June is a love song sweetly sung

June is bustin' out all over!

The sapplin's are bustin' out

with sap!

Love has found my brother, Junior

And my sister's even loonier!

And my Ma is gettin'

kittenish with Pap!

June is bustin' out all over!

The sheep aren't sleepin' any more

All the rams that chase

the ewe sheep

Are determined there'll be new sheep

And the ewe sheep

aren't even keepin' score!

Because it's June

June, June, June

Just because it's June, June June

It's June, June, June

Just because it's June, June

March went out like a lion

A whippin' up the water in the bay

Then April cried and stepped aside

And along come pretty little May!

May was full of promises

But she didn't keep 'em

quick enough for some

And a crowd of Doubtin' Thomases

Was predictin' that

the summer'd never come!

But it's comin', by gum!

Y'ken feel it come!

Y'ken feel it in your heart

Y'ken see it in the ground!

Y'ken hear it in the trees

Y'ken smell it in the breeze

Look around, look around

Look around!

June is bustin' out all over

To ladies the men are payin' court

Lots a ships are kept at anchor

Jest because the Captains hanker for

the comforts they can only get in port!

- You can feel it comin'

- June is bustin' out all over

The moonlight is shinin'

on the shore

And the girls who were contrary

with the boys in January

Aren't nearly so contrary anymore!

- Because it's June

- June, June, June

Just because it's June, June, June

Because it's June

June, June, June

Just because it's June, June, June

It's June!

Hello there on the Nancy B.

- Lookin' for somebody, miss?

- My husband.

They told me he was

with one of your hands, Jigger Craigin.

Could be, ma'am, but I ain't seen him.

The whole crew's gone ashore.

They was, uh, figurin'

on goin' on that clambake.

Maybe you can catch up with them there.

Thank you, sir.

- She gone?

- Yeah.

Billy, is that true?

Is there a clambake today?

- Yeah. First one of the year.

- Yeah.

Why don't we go?

- What for?

- We'd come back rich. That's what for.

Rich? From a clambake?

You'd be the first one.

Jigger's been the first one lots of times.

What you need is a glass of beer.

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