Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet 1909

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 23 Oct 2004

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 is lightened,
as he turned to her and said:

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.

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.

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
thro' 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:

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.

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.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet 1909
Music by Percy Wenrich
Lyrics by Stanley Murphy
© MCMIX by Jerome H. Remick & Co. N.Y. & Detroit
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 23 October 2004 at 15.24
in association with Doug Grierson
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