Key signature: Cmajor
Submitted on July 11th 2009 by talltorpedo.
This tune has been added to 17 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Gypsy Rover, The
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Cmaj
|:Gcde/d/ |cGGE/F/| Gcde/f/ |e2 d2 |
Gcd e/f/ | g e/d/ c c/d/| ee d/c/A| Gc2A |G2 G2:|
Why?
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by bogman
I can imagine this being played for a polka. Certainly not a reel.
# Posted on July 11th 2009 by sixholes
My Bad
It was requested. It's neither a polka nor a reel; It's a Ballad. (what was I thinking) I must have been in a 2/4 mood. -lol
X: 1
T: Gypsie Rover, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Cmaj
|:Gcde/d/ |cGGE/F/| Gcde/f/ |e2 d2 |
Gcd e/f/ | g e/d/ c c/d/| ee d/c/A| Gc2A |G2 G2:|
# Posted on July 12th 2009 by talltorpedo
Lyrics
A gypsy rover came over the hill
Down through the valley so shady.
He whistled and he sang 'til the green woods rang
And he won the heart of a lady.
Ah-dee-doo-ah-dee-doo-dah-day
Ah-dee-doo-ah-dee-day-dee
He whistled and he sang 'til the green woods rang
And he won the heart of a lady.
She left her father's castle gate.
She left her own fine lover.
She left her servants and her state
To follow her gypsy rover.
She left behind her velvet gown
And shoes of Spanish leather
They whistled and they sang 'till the green woods rang
As they rode off together
Last night, she slept on a goose feather bed
With silken sheets for cover
Tonight she'll sleep on the cold, cold ground
Beside her gyspy lover
Her father saddled up his fastest stead
And roamed the valley all over.
Sought his daughter at great speed
And the whistlin' gypsy rover.
He came at last to a mansion fine
Down by the river Claydee.
And there was music and there was wine
For the gypsy and his lady.
"Have you forsaken your house and home?
Have you forsaken your baby?
Have you forsaken your husband dear
For a whistling gypsy rover?"
"He is no gypsy, my Father," she cried
"but Lord of these lands all over.
And I shall stay 'til my dying day
with my whistlin' gypsy rover."
# Posted on July 12th 2009 by talltorpedo