The Jolly Switzer
Author: Bret Harte
Composer: Swiss folk tune
Languages (17)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Chinese (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Danish: Tra-la-la-sangen
- Dutch: Een vrolijke Frans
- English: The Jolly Switzer
- Finnish: Iloinen la-la-la
- French: Le gai luron
- German: Frohsinn
- Icelandic: Nú ég syng
- Italian: Il bambino spensierato
- Japanese: [Unknown title]
- Korean: [Unknown title]
- Norwegian: Jeg er glad
- Portuguese: O Suiço Alegre
- Samoan: O Le Samoa Fiafia
- Spanish: Un son alegre
- Swedish: Den glade schweizaren
- Tongan: Fiefia Faka-Suisalani
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Most common tunes for “The Jolly Switzer”
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Appearances of “The Jolly Switzer” over time
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1964 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Twice 55 Community Songs for Treble Voices (1927), 64.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
I’m a gay tra, la, la, With my fa, la, la, la, And my bright, and my gay tra, la, lee; Then a laugh, ha, ha, ha, And a ring, ting, ting, ling, And a sing, fa, la, la, la, la, lee.