Recordings
A vast number of artists and groups have recorded the song. This selection is limited to artists and/or albums found in other Wikipedia articles.:
| Album/Single | Performer | Year | Variant | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early American Ballads | John Jacob Niles | 1938 | The Gypsie Laddie | 78 rpm record album |
| Black Jack David | Cliff Carlisle | 1939 | Black Jack David | single on Decca label, reissued on Blue Yodeller And Steel Guitar Wizard (1996) & A Country Legacy (2004) |
| Black Jack David | The Carter Family | 1940 | Black Jack David | single on Okeh label, resissued on several albums |
| Gypsy Davy | Woody Guthrie | 1944 | Gypsy Davy | single recorded by Moses Asch reissued on several albums |
| Black Jack David | T. Texas Tyler | 1952 | Black Jack David | single, reissued on CD by the British Archive of Country Music (BACM) |
| Black Jack David | Warren Smith | 1956 | Black Jack David | single, reissued on several albums |
| The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies Folk Songs & Ballades of Elizabethan England |
Alfred Deller | 1956 | The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies | vinyl LP the Cecil Sharp version sung in Elizabethan style by countertenor |
| The Foggy Dew and Other Traditional English Love Songs | A. L. Lloyd | 1956 | The Seven Gypsies | |
| Pete Seeger Sings American Ballads | Pete Seeger | 1957 | Gypsy Davy | |
| Songs and Ballads of the Ozarks | Almeda Riddle | 1960 | Black Jack Davey | |
| British Traditional Ballads In The Southern Mountains Volume 1 | Jean Ritchie | 1961 | Gypsy Laddie | |
| The English And Scottish Popular Ballads Vol.2, F.J. Child Ballads |
Ewan MacColl | 1961 | The Gypsy Laddie | |
| Folk, Blues and Beyond | Davy Graham | 1964 | Seven Gypsies | |
| All the Good Times | Alice Stuart | 1964 | Black Jack David | |
| Remembrance of Things to Come | New Lost City Ramblers | 1966 | Black Jack Daisy | |
| The Power of the True Love Knot | Shirley Collins | 1968 | Seven Yellow Gypsies | |
| Prince Heathen | Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick | 1969 | Seven Yellow Gypsies | |
| Ride a Hustler's Dream | Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera | 1969 | Black Jack Davy | |
| I Looked Up | The Incredible String Band | 1970 | Black Jack Davy | also (as "Black Jack David") on Earthspan (1972) |
| Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys | Arlo Guthrie | 1973 | Gypsy Davy | |
| Planxty | Planxty | 1973 | Raggle Taggle Gypsy | version learnt from John Reilly (see below 1977) |
| The Shipbuilder | Bob Pegg & Nick Strutt | 1974 | The Raggle Taggle Gypsies | |
| All Around My Hat | Steeleye Span | 1975 | Black Jack Davy | also on On Tour and Gone to Australia (live albums) and Present - The Very Best of Steeleye Span (2002) |
| For Pence and Spicy Ale | Mike Waterson | 1975 | Seven Yellow Gypsies | |
| Are Ye Sleeping Maggie | The Tannahill Weavers | 1976 | The Gypsy Laddie | |
| Traditional Ballads of Scotland | Alex Campbell | 1977 | The Gypsy Laddie | |
| The Bonny Green Tree Songs of an Irish Traveller |
John Reilly | 1977 | The Raggle Taggle Gypsy | recorded 1967. The version learnt by Christy Moore and popularised among Irish groups |
| Shreds and Patches | John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris | 1977 | The Gypsy Laddie | |
| There Was a Maid | Dolores Keane | 1978 | Seven Yellow Gypsies | version of Paddy Doran (see below 2012) |
| Watching the White Wheat | The King's Singers | 1986 | The Raggle Taggle Gypsies | the Cecil Sharp version, highly arranged for male-voice a capella group |
| The Voice of the People Vol 6 Tonight I'll Make You My Bride |
Walter Pardon | 1988 | The Raggle-Taggle Gypsies | recorded 1975 |
| The Voice of the People Vol 17 It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day |
Jeannie Robertson | 1988 | The Gypsy Laddies | recorded 1953 |
| In Search of Nic Jones | Nic Jones | 1988 | Seven Yellow Gypsies | recorded 1981 for BBC Radio 2 Radio Folk |
| Room to Roam | The Waterboys | 1990 | The Raggle Taggle Gypsy | |
| Fiddler's Green | Fiddler's Green | 1992 | The Raggle Taggle Gypsy | |
| Good as I Been to You | Bob Dylan | 1992 | Blackjack Davey | |
| Neat and Complete | Sandra Kerr & Nancy Kerr | 1996 | Seven Yellow Gypsies | |
| Stargazy Pie | Nancy Kerr & James Fagan | 1997 | Seven Yellow Gypsies | |
| October Song | The House Band | 1998 | Seven Yellow Gypsies | |
| Pastures of Plenty | JSD Band | 1998 | The Gypsy Laddie | |
| The Long Haul | Shanneyganock | 1998 | Raggle Taggle | |
| Blackjack David | Dave Alvin | 1998 | Blackjack David | |
| Traveller | Christy Moore | 1999 | Raggle Taggle Gypsy | |
| Os Amores Libres | Carlos Núñez | 1999 | The Raggle Taggle Gypsy | sung by Mike Scott |
| Broken Ground | Waterson:Carthy | 1999 | Raggle Taggle Gypsies | sung by Eliza Carthy |
| Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 | The Carter Family | 2000 | Black Jack David | reissue of 1940 recording (see above) |
| The Alan Lomax Collection: Portraits Texas Gladden - Ballad Legacy |
Texas Gladden | 2001 | Gypsy Davy | recorded 1941 |
| The Bonny Labouring Boy | Harry Cox | 2001 | Black-Hearted Gypsies O | recorded 1965 |
| Hattie Mae Tyler Cargill | Debra Cowan | 2001 | Dark-Skinned Davy | |
| Wayfaring Stranger: Folksongs | Andreas Scholl | 2001 | The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies, O! | sung as dialogue between counter-tenor and baritone, accompanied by Edin Karamazov & the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. |
| Further Down the Old Plank Road | The Chieftains | 2003 | The Raggle Taggle Gypsy | featuring Nickel Creek |
| Elephant | The White Stripes | 2003 | Black Jack Davey | Single track listing |
| Swinging Miss Loch Lomond 1952–1959 | Maxine Sullivan | 2004 | Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies | single recorded in 1950's |
| Another Dawn | Tempest | 2004 | Black Jack Davy | |
| With Us | The Black Pine | 2004 | Black Jack David | |
| The Irish Connection | Johnny Logan | 2007 | Raggle Taggle Gypsy | |
| Celtic Fire | Rapalje | 2007 | The Raggle Taggle Gypsy | |
| The Song Train | Harvey Reid | 2007 | Black Jack Davy | sung by Joyce Andersen |
| Act Two | Celtic Thunder | 2008 | Raggle Taggle Gypsy | |
| Fotheringay 2 | Fotheringay | 2008 | Gypsy Davey | recorded 1970 |
| A Folk Song a Day: April | Jon Boden | 2011 | Seven Yellow Gypsies | |
| The Voice of the People Good People Take Warning |
Paddy Doran | 2012 | Seven Yellow Gypsies | recorded 1952 |
| The Voice of the People I'm A Romani Rai |
Carolyne Hughes | 2012 | The Draggle-Tail Gypsies | recorded 1968 |
| The Speyside Sessions | Speyside Sessions | 2012 | Raggle Taggle Gypsy | |
| A North Country Lass | Lesley Garrett | 2012 | The Raggle Taggle Gypsies | the Cecil Sharp version, performed by classical soprano and orchestra |
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