Grow Old With You - Custom Gender Swap for a Wedding
Grow Old With You from The Wedding Singer with "man" changed to "woman" for a same-sex wedding. Listen to both versions on ChangeLyric.
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"Grow Old With You" from The Wedding Singer is one of the most requested wedding songs we work with. David came to ChangeLyric with the simplest possible change: swap one word. "I could be the man who grows old with you" became "I could be the woman who grows old with you."
What Changed
One word. That's the entire modification. "Man" became "woman" in the line "I could be the man who grows old with you." Every other lyric in the song — the arthritis jokes, the remote control, the kitchen sink dishes — stays exactly the same. The Anthem Lights vocal performance carries through identically.
It's a single-syllable-to-two-syllable swap, which means the vocal phrasing shifts slightly. "Man" is punchy and lands on one beat. "Woman" stretches across two, requiring a subtle rhythmic adjustment in the vocal delivery. The result sounds completely natural — like the song was always written that way.
Listen & Compare
Hear the original song and the custom version side by side
When One Word Changes Everything
Gender swaps are among the most common projects we handle. A song might be perfect in every way except that a single pronoun or gendered word doesn't fit the couple using it. Changing "man" to "woman," "he" to "she," or "boy" to "girl" can seem trivial on paper, but it's the difference between a song that almost fits and one that fits completely.
These small changes carry outsized emotional weight at weddings. When a song plays during a first dance or a ceremony walk, every word matters. Hearing the right pronoun in the right moment removes the one small barrier between the couple and the song they chose. That's worth changing a single word for.
Browse more projects like this in our lyric swap showcase, or start your own custom lyric swap.