The Gypsy Trail (Tod B. Galloway)

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• (Posted 2022-11-30)  CPDL #71730:     

Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-11-30).   Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 110 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Gypsy Trail
Composer: Tod B. Galloway
Lyricist: Rudyard Kipling
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1922
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

The white moth to the closing vine,
  The bee to the opened clover,
And the gypsy blood to the gypsy blood
  Ever the wide world over.

Ever the wide world over, lass,
  Ever the trail held true,
Over the world and under the world,
  And back at the last to you.

Out of the dark of the gorigo camp,
  Out of the grime and the grey
(Morning waits at the end of the world),
  Gypsy, come away!

Both to the road again, again!
  Out on a clean sea-track --
Follow the cross of the gypsy trail
  Over the world and back!

Follow the Romany patteran
  West to the sinking sun,
Till the junk-sails lift through the houseless drift.
  And the east and west are one.

Follow the Romany patteran
  East where the silence broods
By a purple wave on an opal beach
  In the hush of the Mahim woods.

"The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky,
  The deer to the wholesome wold,
And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid,
  As it was in the days of old."

The heart of a man to the heart of a maid --
  Light of my tents, be fleet.
Morning waits at the end of the world,
  And the world is all at our feet!