The Gypsy Laddie

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)

    ‘Will ye go with me, my hinny and my heart?
    Will you go with me, my dearie?
    And I will swear by the hilt of my spear,
    That your lord shall no more come near thee.’
    —Unknown. The Gypsy Laddie (l. 13–16)