I'm a merry Zingara

I'm a merry merry Zingara

From a golden clime I come

Yes a merry merry Zingara

From a golden clime I come

My passport is my light guitar

Where so e'er my footsteps roam.

I sing of love at castle gate

And happy fortunes tell

I read in the stars the coming fate,

Of Bachelor and Bell

Trala la la, ha!

Where e'er I call I've a smile for all

The merry merry Zingara has a smile for all

from my fatherland I'm far away

And my couch is in some bow'r

Where calm I sleep till dawn of day

My pillow the wild wild flow'r

By twilight grey at cottage door

When lover, when lovers I surprise

I tell how two young hearts adore

And read it in their eyes

Trala la la, ha!