That Over the Hills and Far Away Quote Is Not John Gray’s, It Is a 300-Year-Old Song
The short answer: no John Gray wrote “I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you’d fondly stray, over the hills and far away”; the verse is John Gay’s, sung in The Beggar’s Opera in 1728 to a tune London already knew from George Farquhar’s The…