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Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 200
The Gypsy Laddie
Version K

  1. From Mrs. Helena Titus Brown of New York.
  2. From Miss Emma A. Clinch of New York. Derived, 1 820, or a little later.

Narrative

a directly, b indirectly, from the singing of Miss Phoebe Wood, Huntington, Long Island, and perhaps learned from English soldiers there stationed during the Revolutionary war.

1   'Go bring me down my high-heeled shoes,
Made of the Spanish leather,
And I'll take off my low-heeled shoes,
And away we'll go together.'
Lumpy dumpy linky dinky day
Lumpy dumpy linky dinky daddy
2   They brought her down her high-heeled shoes,
Made of the Spanish leather,
And she took off her low-heeled shoes,
And away they went together.
3   And when Lord Garrick he got there,
Inquiring for his lady,
Then up steps his best friend:
'She's gone with a gipsy laddie.'
4   'Go saddle me my bonny brown,
For the grey is not so speedy,
And away we'll go to the Misty Mount,
And overtake my lady.'
5   They saddled him his bonny brown,
For the grey was not so speedy,
And away they went to the Misty Mount,
And overtook his lady.
6   And when Lord Garrick he got there,
'Twas in the morning early,
And there he found his lady fair,
And she was wet and weary.
7   'And it's fare you well, my dearest dear,
And it's fare you well for ever,
And if you don't go with me now,
Don't let me see you never.'

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