A popular song from 1839.
music by J. N. (James Nathan) Sporle
arranged by Joseph Philip Knight
This song is being used as part of a school presentation on Jane Eyre.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- In the days when we went gipsying
A long while ago
The lads and lasses in their best
Were dressed from top to toe
We danced and sung the jocund song
Upon the forest green
And nought but mirth and jollity
Around us could be seen
Chorus
And thus we passed the pleasant time
Nor thought of care or woe
In the days when we went gipsying
A long while ago
In the days when we went gipsying
A long while ago
- All hearts were light and eyes were bright
While nature’s face was gay
The trees their leafy branches spread
And perfume filled the May
‘Twas there we heard the cuckoo’s note
Steal softly through the air
While every scene around us looked
Most beautiful and fair - We filled a glass to every lass
And all our friends most dear
And wished them many happy days
And many a happy year
To friends away we turned our thoughts
With feelings kind and free
And oh! we wished them with us there
Beneath the forest tree
Sung here by Fred Feild: