From the 1930 film “Lilies of the Field”
Words by Ned Washington
Music by Michael H. Cleary
The sheet music:
Lyrics
1. Life gets so monotonous
All it’s ever gotten us
Has been just care and woe
Now I’ve got the wanderlust
Feet just want to “shake the dust”
And simply go and go
Refrain:
I’d like to be a Gipsy, a tipsy Gipsy
If I could roam the trail with you
I’d like to be a Rover, just rove all over
And live the way the Gipsies do
For in a covered wagon
We could build such a nest
Forget about tomorrow
And we’d find our rest, and be blest
I’ll like to be a Gipsy, a tipsy Gipsy
If I could go a-roaming the trail with you
2. What a world this world would be
Out upon the road that’s free
With love our only guide,
Dressed in colors wild and gay
Life’s Great Highway we would stray
But always side by side