Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

300 traditional songs, inc sheet music with full piano accompaniment & lyrics.

	TRANCADILLO.		153
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	—-—_^;----------------------- Oh, come, maidens come, o'er the blue rolling wave, The lovely should still be the care of the brave. Trancadillo, Trancadillo, &c. With moonlight and starlight we'll bound o'er the billow, Bright billow, gay billow, &c. With moonlight and starlight we'll bound o'er the billow. The moon 'neath yon cloud hid her silvery light — Ye are come — like our fond hopes she glows in your sight. Trancadillo, Trancadillo, &c. With moonlight and lovelight we'll bound o'er the billow, Bright billow, gay billow, &c. With moonlight and lovelight we'll bound o'er the billow. Wake the chorus of song, and our oars shall keep time, While our hearts gently beat to the musical chime. Trancadillo, Trancadillo, &c. With oar-beat and heart-beat we'll bound o'er the billow, Bright billow, gay billow, &c. With oar-beat and heart-beat, we'll bound o'er the billow.	As the waves gently heave under zephyr's soft sighs, So the waves of our hearts 'neath the glance of your eyes. Trancadillo, Trancadillo, &c. With eye-beam and heart-beam, we'll bound o'er the billow, Bright billow, gay billow, &c. With eye-beam and heart-beam we'll bound o'er the billow. See, the helmsman looks forth to yon beacon-lit isle; So we shape our hearts' course by the light of your smile. Trancadillo, Trancadillo, &c. With love-light and smile-light we'll bound o'er the billow, Bright billow, gay billow, &c. With love-light and smile-light we'll bound o'er the billow. And when on life's ocean we turn our slight prow, May the light-house of Hope beam like this on us now. Life's billow, frail billow, &c. With hope-light, the true-light, we'll bound o'er life's billow, Life's billow, frail billow, &c. With hope-light, the true light, we'll bound o'er life's billow.
	WAPPING OLD STAIRS. " Wapping Old Stairs," on the Thames, has witnessed innumerable partings between Billy Bowlegs and his sweetheart, with her face hidden under his broad brim. The term old stairs is used simply to distinguish the place from the new stairs at Wapping, which also descend to the water, where, no doubt, the same scenes are enacted; for the water-