Gypsy Song 1917

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 31 May 2010
2010

Strange wild music
is echoing for ever
in all hearts that live
in Bohemia the free.
Hark it calls us
and we resist it never
It thrills us and fills us
for love and liberty.
Like a bugle note
resounding through our dreams,
the spirit awakens
the call of the blood it seems.

Come the magic music calls to you
Come! to gypsy land
where hearts are true,
Brothers hand in hand
we'll roam, rove, laugh, love!
Ev'ry artist is a gypsy too.

Come the magic music calls to you
Come! to gypsy land
where hearts are true,
Brothers hand in hand
we'll roam, rove, laugh, love!
Ev'ry artist is a gypsy too.

Not like others
are we who live by dreaming,
we're not of the world
where all things
are brought and sold.
Love's not sunlight through clouds
and darkness beaming
And pleasures a treasure
worth more to us than gold.
Chains we cannot wear
for that free life we long
Our Romany comrades
have called to us
in their song.

Come the magic music calls to you
Come! to gypsy land
where hearts are true,
Brothers hand in hand
we'll roam, rove, laugh, love!
Ev'ry artist is a gypsy too.

Come the magic music calls to you
Come! to gypsy land
where hearts are true,
Brothers hand in hand
we'll roam, rove, laugh, love!
Ev'ry artist is a gypsy too.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Gypsy Song 1917
Music by Victor Jacobi
Lyrics bty Harry B.Smith
© MCMXVII by T.B.Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter - N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 31 May 2010 at 09.35
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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