My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free

Lyrics and Music: Francis Hopkinson [Download the mp3]

My days have been so wondrous free,
The little birds that fly
With careless ease from tree to tree,
Were but as blest as I!

Ask gliding waters if a tear
Of mine increas’d their stream,
And ask the breathing gales if e’er
I lent a sigh to them!