Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
written by PERCY WENRICH
​lyrics by STANLEY MURPHY
PUT ON YOUR OLD GREY BONNET  ​-  HAYDN QUARTET
PUT ON YOUR OLD GREY BONNET 
(SCREEN SONGS) 1929
PUT ON YOUR OLD GREY BONNET
MUSICAL MEMORIES    (COLOR CLASSICS)   1935
Put On Your Old Grey Bonnett was published and recorded for the first time in 1909. The song was written by Ragtime composer Percy Wenrich who had just moved to New York City around 1907 to pursue a music career in Tin Pan Alley. The song's lyrics were written by Stanley Murphy. Before moving to New York, Wenrich was a successful ragtime composer in Missouri and went to music school in Chicago, before moving to New York he had come to be known as "That Joplin Kid." Put On You Old Grey Bonnet became a major hit, it sold 2 million copies and became popular vaudeville standard. In 1929 the song was used for an installment of Fleischer's Screen Songs series, and the song was used by Fleischer again in the 1935 Color Classics short Musical Memories.
1909

HAYDEN
​QUARTET
1910

ARTHUR
C. CLOUGH
1910

BYRON
G. HARLAN
1919

HELEN
CLARK
& JOSEPH
A. PHILLIPS
1928

JAMES
JOHNSON
1929

HARVEY
WATSON
1931

CASA
LOMA
ORCHESTRA
1931

DUKE WILSON
AND HIS TEN
BLACK
BERRIES
1934

MILLS
BROTHERS
1935

SWEET
VIOLET
BOYS
1935

CHARLIE
HERALD
AND HIS
ROUND-UP
RANGERS
1937

JIMMIE
LUNCEFORD
1944

BUGS
BUNNY
&
BIGBAD
WOLF
1944

THE
KING'S
​MEN
1954

CHRIS
BARBER
1955

THE
FABOLOUS
GEORGE
LEWIS BAND
1957

BURL
​IVES
19??

PEARL
BAILEY
1963

COLEMAN
HAWKINS
1963

PETE
FOUNTAIN
1965

JIMMY
DEAN
19??

JO ANN
CASTLE
2009

PRESERVATION
HALL JAZZ
BAND
2016

THE CORN
POTATO
STRING
BAND
PUT ON YOUR OLD GREY BONNET
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Put on your old gray bonnet with the blue ribbons on it
And we'll hitch all dovin' to the shade
Through those fields of clover
We'll go down to Dover on our golden wedding day

Old gray bonnet, ribbons on it
All dovin', shade
Fields of clover, down the Dover
Golden wedding day

Put on your old gray bonnet with the blue ribbons on it
Hitch all dovin' to the shade
Through those fields of clover
We gonna go down to Dover on our golden wedding day

Grey bonnet, ribbons on it
All dovin', shade
Fields of clover, down the Dover
Golden wedding day

Golden wedding day
Golden wedding day
Gonna go down on our golden wedding day
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