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Thread #613   Message #3958405
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Oct-18 - 08:37 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: A Scottish Soldier / Green Hills of Tyrol
Subject: ADD: Green Hills of Tyrol (broadside)
Well, just to confuse things a bit, there is a broadside with a completely different song with the same title.

GREEN HILLS OF TYROL

Green hills of Tyrol, again I see
The home of childhood so dear to me,
Again I press your verdant shade,
Where oft my footsteps have wildly strayed
    Once more I am near him
    My own one, my fond one
    Again I shall hear him,
    Love's accents repeat.
While to his sighs my heart replies,
And e’ery glance is soft and sweet.
Green hills of Tyrol &c.

From yonder woodlands sounding clear,
His merry bugle note I hear,
With eye of hawh and falcon keen,
He comes, be comes — my Tyrolien.
    Once more I behold him,
    My own one, my fond one,
    To my bosom I’ll fold him,
    My own Tyrolien.

Haste, haste, my love, why linger now,
The sun is shedding its parting glow,
The chamois seeks his peaceful shade,
And homeward wanders the mountain maid.
    Oh, come then, and cheer me,
    Again thou shalt hear me,
    Sing love’s tender strain,
While every note my lips repeat,
As soft and sweet tbou breathe again.

Hark, hark! I hear his well known cry,
While answering echoes makes reply.
Now, now he wavs his scarf so green,
He comes, he comes my own Tyrolien.
    Once more I behold him,
    My dear one, my fond one,
    To my bosom I'll fold him,
My own Tyrolien.


Bodleian Ballads has a number of broadsides with these same lyrics. Here's one: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/05000/01125.gif

Roud 13781


Is there a standard melody that goes with these lyrics?

-Joe-