Through Romany Songland. [With Musical Notes.]
BkhhP 1 rais mMBit mm THE GLEN COLLECTION OF SCOTTISH MUSIC Presented by Lady Dorothea Ruggles- Brise to the National Library of Scotland, in memory of her brother, Major Lord George Stewart Murray, Black Watch, killed in action in France in 1914. 28th January 1927. THROUGH ROMANY SONGLAND Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/throughromanysonOOsmit THROUGH ROMANY SONGLAND BY LAURA ALEXANDRINE SMITH Authoress 0/""The Music of the Waters." " Only in the Land of Dreams is Freedom, Only blooms the beautiful in Song." "In ancient Germany there was a town known by the name of Sing-one, and referred to by Ptolemy ; it is believed that in all probability our English word "sing," in Dutch "zingen," and its various forms in other languages, were derived from the habit of singing of the gypsies." —Henry Kilgour. DAVID STOTT, 370, OXFORD STREET, W. 1! : LONDON HENDERSON & SPALDING, GENERAL PRINTERS 3 & 5, MARYLEBONE LANE, W. Deoicateb by special permission MR WILSON BARRETT CONTENTS. PAGE Gypsy Song .. ... i x Introduction xi Magyar or Hungarian Gypsy Songs ; or, Songs of the Tzigani I Songs of the Gitanos or Spanish Gypsies 47 Russian Romany Songs ; or, Songs of the Tziggani 89 Anglo- Romany Songs ... - 107 Scotch Gypsy or Tinkler Songs ... 157 Songs of the Bohemiens; or, French Gypsy Songs 1S1 The Zigeuner or Gypsies of the Vaterland ... 205 Indian Gypsy Songs and Dance Tjnes 211 Finale 225 : You ask, what is the gypsy life ? Hark, then, and I will tell GYPSY SONG. gg^iSgg± Tra la la la.Tra la la la, A gj'p-sy gay and free, Tra liiliiiillll^ la la la, Tra la la la, A rov-inglife for me— Tra -J£=ZJK=WZ^^^^^^m.
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