🎵🎶Musical🎵🎹🎶 🎵🎶Theme No 18🎵🎹🎶Derek Ryan Raggle Taggle Gypsy (lyrics)

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Cherita

the raggle-taggle gypsy-o

enticed a rich lady away
from her wealthy husband

dressed in fine leather
she preferred a kiss from
the gypsy than all the lord's wealth.

©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2023

* Thanks to my friend and fellow poet, Stan Phillips for the inspiration!*

**Wikipedia

The Raggle Taggle Gypsy

"Gypsy Davy" and "Gypsy Davey" redirect here. For the sculptor and songwriter, see Gyp Mills. For the 2011 documentary film, see Gypsy Davy (film).
"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" (Roud 1, Child 200), is a traditional folk song that originated as a Scottish border ballad, and has been 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 "Gypsy Davy", "The Raggle Taggle Gypsies O", "The Gypsy Laddie(s)", "Black Jack David" (or "Davy") and "Seven Yellow Gypsies".

Francis James Child's ''English and Scottish Popular Ballads'
In the folk tradition the song was extremely popular, spread all over the English-speaking world by broadsheets and oral tradition. According to Roud and Bishop,

"Definitely in the top five Child ballads in terms of widespread popularity, and possibly second only to 'Barbara Allen', the Gypsies stealing the lady, or, to put it the other way round, the lady running off with the sexy Gypsies, has caught singers' attention all over the anglophone world for more than 200 years. For obvious reasons, the song has long been a favourite with members of the travelling community."**