Seven little gipsies, song / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
ITMA Reference | 239784 |
Creator | Tunney, Paddy, singing in English |
Contributor | Shields, Hugh, collector |
Date | September 1962 |
Location | Hugh Shields’s house, Dublin |
Type | Sound |
Extent | 1 computer file (MP3 file, 1 min., 14 sec.) : digital, stereo |
Collection | Hugh Shields Collection |
Subject | Ireland: Singing in English |
Language | English |
Publisher | Irish Traditional Music Archive |
Copyright | Performers, Hugh Shields |
Source | [HS 6104] |
Roud Number | 1 |
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There were seven little gipsies all in a row
As we went down to Strabally
And I wouldn’t give a kiss off a gipsy lassie’s lips
For all old squire Cash’s money oh
Come saddle for me, my pretty fair maid
Saddle for me, my honey oh
For I wouldn’t give a kiss off a gipsy lassie’s lips
For all old squire Cash’s money oh
He rode East and she rode West
Until I came to Strabally
And who did I spy but my own wedded wife
All alone with the raggle-taggle gipsies oh
Last night I lay on a cold barn floor
With seven yellow gipsies to annoy me oh
But tonight I will lie on my own feather bed
With my own yellow gipsy all beside me oh.
(followed by lilting)
The Knight of the Road
Brian O’Linn