Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet

DESCRIPTION: "On the old farmhouse veranda there sat Silas and Miranda, Thinking of days gone by." They realize they have been married for fifty years. They leap up, forgetting the years, and go to town to celebrate all the happy times
AUTHOR: Words: Stanley Murphy / Music: Percy Wenrich
EARLIEST DATE: 1909 (Fuld-BookOfWorldFamousMusic)
KEYWORDS: love marriage
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Dean-FlyingCloud, p. 89, "Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet" (1 text)
Fuld-BookOfWorldFamousMusic, pp. 449-450, "Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet"
DT, GOLDWED3*
Roud #5491
SAME TUNE:
Put On Your New Blue Bonnet (Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook, p. 150)
Get to Work/Booster Song ("Take off your coat and collar, Get to work, push and holler") (Harbin-Parodology, #146, p. 43; Zander/Klusmann-CampSongsNThings, p. 51; Zander/Klusmann-CampSongsPopularEdition, p. 29)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
NOTES [57 words]: Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 290, estimates that this was the third most popular song in America in 1910, peaking at #1 in March 1910 (#1 for the year being Beth Slate Whitson and Leo Friedman's "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland"). - RBW
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