The Gypsy Laddie
"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" (Roud 1, Child 200), is a traditional folk song in origin a Scottish border ballad, and subsequently popular throughout Britain, Ireland and North America. It concerns a rich lady who runs off to join the gypsies (or one gypsy). Common alternative names are "The Raggle Taggle Gypsies O", "The Gypsy Laddie(s)", "Black Jack David" (or "Davy") and "Seven Yellow Gypsies".
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Famous quotes containing the words gypsy and/or laddie:
“You and you alone bring out the gypsy in me.”
—Ira Gershwin (1896–1983)
“Ye lassies all, where’er ye be,
And ye lie with an east-shore laddie,
Ye’ll happy be and ye’ll happy be,
For they are frank and free.”
—Unknown. The Rantin Laddie (l. 49–52)