Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
Lyrics by Stanley Murphy
Key: Bb
Music by Percy Wenrich
Copyright 1909

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File Created:04/06/24

Verse 1:

       Bb                 Bb7
On the old farm house ver-anda
          C7
There sat Silas and Miranda
         F7               BbF7
Thinking of the days gone by

        Bb               Bb7
Saying, "Dearie don't be weary,
         C7
You were always bright and cheery
      F7                   Bb
But a tear, dear dims your eye."

     C                     F
Said she, "They're tears ofgladness, Silas
C                    F
They're not tears of sadness
      G7             C7                F    F7
It is fifty years to-day since we were wed."

         Bb                 Bb7
Then the old man's dim eyes brighten'd
        C7
And his stern old heart it light-en'd
      F         F7      Bb   BbdimF7
As he turn'd to her and said,

Chorus 2x:

            Eb       Eb7
Put on your old grey bonnet
         Ab
With the blue ribbon on it
        Eb                      Bb7
While I hitch old Dobbin to the shay

                Eb        Eb7
And through the fields of clover,
            Ab    Eb
We'll drive up to Dover
              Bb7     Eb
On our golden wedding day

Verse 2:

       Bb              Bb7
It was in the same old bonnet
         C7
With the same blue ribbon on it
       F7               Bb  F7
In the old shay, by his side

        Bb              Bb7
That he drove her up to Dover
         C7
Thru the same old fields of clover
      F7             Bb
To be-come his happy bride.

    C                  F
The birds were sweetly singing,
        C                   F
And the same old bells were ringing
        G7                    C7
As they pass'd the quaint old church
                F   F7
Where they were wed.

         Bb                    Bb7
And that night when stars were gleaming,
        C7
The old couple lay a dreaming,
         F     F7       Bb   BbdimF7
Dreaming of thewords he said.

              Bb
Chorus Repeat:

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