A nostalgic love song with a long buggy ride, 1909.
Easy to sing and easy to remember.
words by Stanley Murphy
music by Percy Wenrich
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- 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 it lightened
As he turned 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
- 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
Through 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
Sung here by Fred Feild: