The Happy Wanderer
(source: "Jubilee Songbook", Girl Guides of Canada, 1971.)
Chorus:
- Val-der-ri, val-der-ra
- Val-der-ri, val-der-ra ra ra ra ra ra
- Val-der-ri, val-der-ra
- (sing the last line of the verse)
- I love to go a-wandering
- Along the mountain track
- And as I go, I love to sing
- My knapsack on my back
I love to wander by the stream
- That dances in the sun
- So joyously it calls to me
- Come join my happy song
I wave my hat to all I meet
- And they wave back at me
- And blackbirds call so loud and clear
- From every greenwood tree
Oh, may I go a-wandering
- Until the day I die
- And may I always laugh and sing
- Beneath God's clear blue sky