MY LITTLE GYPSY WANDA (WON'T YOU WANDER BACK TO ME)
(Robert Levenson / Ted Garton) (1918)




You wandered straight into my heart
when first I saw you smile
I hoped and prayed that you'd stay there
to love me all the while

The gypsy life has called to you
You've wandered back again
And now my heart juat longs for you
Must I call you all in vain

My little gypsy Wanda,
Won't you wander back to me
For I still long for you after all of these years
And I still sit and watch for you through my tears

You've wandered and wandered all over the earth
You know just how much a home can be worth
My little gypsy Wanda
Won't you wander back home to me

I often wonder how it came
that my song reached your ears
I hardly thought you'd come back home
it's been so many years

But God was good, he gave me you
My pray'rs were not in vain
So just for old times' sake, sweetheart
I will sing that song again

My little gypsy Wanda
Won't you wander back to me
For I still long for you after all of these years
And I still sit and watch for you through my tears

You've wandered and wandered all over the earth
You know just how much a home can be worth
My little gypsy Wanda
Won't you wander back home to me




(Contributed by  - February 2007)