Lyr Add: Green Hills of Tyrol (Rossini)

Subject: Lyr Add: GREEN HILLS OF TYROL (G. Rossini)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 06:04 PM

Lyr. Add: GREEN HILLS OF TYROL
(G. Rossini)

Green hills of Tyrol! again I see
The home of childhood so dear to me;
Again I press the verdant shade,
Where oft my footsteps have wildly stray'd.

Once more I am near him,
Love's accents repeat;
While to his sighs my heart replies,
And every glance is soft and sweet.

Green hills of Tyrol, etc.

From yonder woodlands sounding clear,
His merry bugle notes I hear,
With eye of hawk and falchion keen,
He comes, he comes- my *Tyrolien!

Haste, haste, my love! why linger now!
The sun is shedding its parting glow,
The chamois seeks his peaceful glade,
And homeward wanders the mountain maid.

Oh! come, then, and cheer me,
My own one, my fond one!
Again thou shalt hear me,
Sing love's tender strain,
While every note my lips repeat,
As soft and sweet thoul't breathe again.

Haste, haste, my love, etc.

Hark, hark! I hear his well-known cry,
While answering echo makes reply;
Now, now he waves his scarf(e) of green,
He comes, he comes- my Tyrolien!

Once more I behold him,
My dear one- my fond one!
To my bosom I'll fold him,
My own Tyrolien.
*Tyrolean

Judging by the number of songsheets by different printers, and multiple copies in repositories, this was a popular song in the first half of the 19th c.
Printed by W. & T. Fordyce, Newcastle and Hull.
This is taken from the Murray Coll., Glasgow, Mu23-y4:009. www.cc.gla.ac.uk/courses/scottish/ballads/index.htm
The same text is in a sheet printed by Pitts, London: Bodleian Library (Harding B 11 (1415); and others, Catnach London, Harding B 36(6), etc.).

Sheet music (nd, Philadelphia) in Levy says the music is arranged "To the celebrated waltz in Cinderella." A line or two are different. GREEN HILLS OF TYROL

It is unrelated to the "Green Hills of Tyrol (Scottish Soldier)" except by title.