Historic Sheet Music Collection
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_put-on-your-old-grey-bonnet_arthur-clough-wenrich_gbia0008590b
https://archive.org/details/78_put-on-your-old-grey-bonnet_jimmie-lunceford-and-his-orchestra-eddie-tompkins-percy_gbia0027454a
https://archive.org/details/78_put-on-your-old-grey-bonnet_milton-brown-and-his-brownies_gbia0006973a
https://archive.org/details/78_put-on-your-old-grey-bonnet_the-four-clefs-murphy--wenrich_gbia0006333b
https://archive.org/details/78_put-on-your-old-grey-bonnet_the-four-clefs-murphy-wenrich_gbia0005344b
Publication Date
1909
Lyrics
[Verse 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 brighten’d,
And his stern old heart it lighten’d,
As he turn’d 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.”
[Verse 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 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 pass’d 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]
Recommended Citation
Wenrich, Percy and Murphy, Stanley, "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" (1909). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1384.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1384
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
MacIntosh Collection
New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1909.
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