A Happy Wanderer

  A Happy Wanderer

I love to go a-wandering

along the mountain track

And as I go I love to sing

my knapsack on my back

Chorus:

Valderi, valdera, valdera, Vadera 

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

Vaderi, valdera, my knapsack on my back

I love to wander by the stream

that dances in the sun

So joyously it calls to me, 

“Come and join my happy song! ”

I wave my hat to all I meet

and they wave to me

And blackbirds call so loud and sweet

from every  green wood tree.

O, may I go a-wandering until the day I die!

O, may I always laugh and sing

beneath God’s clear blue sky.

Chorus:

Valderi, valdera, valdera, Vadera 

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

Vaderi, valdera, beneath God’s clear blue sky

(You can get all kinds of songs  from Youtube.)    

My student whom I taught in 1992 requested for the lyrics of this song.  So she still can remember this song.