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One of the best known of the ballads collected by Francis James Child, there are many variations on this song, about a girl who leaves either her father more...or her husband to run away with a gypsy.
Wikipedia lists twenty alternate titles, including "Black Jack Davey", "Clayton Boone", "Johnny Faa", "The Lady and the Gypsy", "Harrison Brady", "The Heartless Lady" and "Seven Yeller Gypsies."
In some versions the gypsy turns out to be a rich man, obviously the version known to the heroine of "The Jolly Beggar" (Child 279) who mistakenly assumes the gypsy who seduces her is a rich lord! A good example of this is a rather sentimentalised version, possibly of American origin, known as "The Gypsy Rover" or "The Whistling Gypsy".
The "Gypsy Davey" variation seems to be the most recorded one, but this version has been recorded by Christy Moore, Planxty and The Waterboys. less
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