What’s Her Name?
Why should a lass forsake her name
the day that she gets married?
You can be sure that its taken away
like her virginity, it’s always carried.
The lad loses nothing of consequence,
he can stand up and rightly claim;
‘I don’t stand for political correctness,
I’m just carrying on my family name’.
Notes by the author
I've never been able to find out the origination of the idea that the man retains his surname and the woman loses hers.
These days I would have thought someone would have questioned this biased approach.