Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet

Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet

Voice 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 turned to her and said V2 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 p to Dover thru 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 cleaming The old couple lay a dreaming Dreaming of the words he said Refrain Put on your old grey bonnet with the blue ribbon in it While I ______ And hrough the fields of _____ Dover on our golden _____

Stanley Murphy (words), Penny Wenrich (music)