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Thread #120728   Message #2628216
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-May-09 - 08:28 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
Subject: Lyr Add: PUT ON YOUR OLD GREY BONNET
The version in the DT has a few errors.

From the sheet music at Indiana University:

PUT ON YOUR OLD GREY BONNET
Words, Stanley Murphy. Music, Percy Wenrich.
New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1909.

1. On the old farm house veranda
there sat Silas and Miranda,
Thinking of the days gone by.
Said he, "Dearie, don't be weary.
You were always bright and cheery,
But a tear, dear, dims your eye."
Said she, "They're tears of gladness,
Silas. They're not tears of sadness.
It is fifty years today since we were wed."
Then the old man's dim eyes brightened
and his stern old heart it lightened
As he turned to her and said:

CHORUS: "Put on your old grey bonnet
With the blue ribbon on it
While I hitch old Dobbin to the shay,
And through the fields of clover
We'll drive up to Dover
On our golden wedding day."

2. It was in the same old bonnet
with the same blue ribbon on it
In the old shay, by his side,
That he drove her up to Dover
through the same old fields of clover
To become his happy bride.
The birds were sweetly singing
and the same old bells were ringing
As they passed the quaint old church where they were wed,
And that night when stars were gleaming,
the old couple lay a-dreaming,
Dreaming of the words he said: CHORUS