Wedding Song

It opens the album at 3:18, with Justin Vernon as Orpheus and Mitchell as Eurydice, though Wikipedia's track table credits Vernon alone. It concerns the courtship of Orpheus and Eurydice in a Depression-like economy: she asks how he can afford to marry her and provide, he says his music will give them everything, and she loves him but is unsure. PopMatters calls it the opening duet contrasting Eurydice's account of harsh economics with Orpheus's faith in music. Mitchell told American Songwriter that it does resemble a Child Ballad in its repetition, and told Ms. that she performed it around 2007, during the US recession, when audiences responded to its hardship themes differently. We found no recording date. In the stage musical it is sung by Orpheus, Eurydice and the Workers, in the first act.

Setlist.fm shows 66 plays, her most played song, ahead of "Young Man in America" (50) and "Why We Build the Wall" (46). It opened her set on Mountain Stage in a recording from December 2018, with Austin Navins on guitar and vocals, and she played Royal Albert Hall in London on June 11, 2025. Setlist.fm lists ten performances of it by other artists. This is the 2010 studio version, not one of the later cast recordings.