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'The Gypsy Laddie' (Roud1, Child200), also known as 'Black Jack Davy' and'The Raggle Taggle Gypsies' among many other titles, is a Scottishtraditionalfolk ballad^[1],possibly written about 1720. The ballad has often been used andrecorded in many different variations in Scotland and England from the 18th century, the United States, Canada from the 19th century, andIreland from the 1970s.

History

Francis James Child's compilation,the five-volume The English and Scottish Popular Ballads(1882–1898), provides an excellent history of this ballad.The Gypsy Laddie is ballad number 200 in the collection,and Child describes that the printed versions of this balladprobably date back to at least 1720 and is traditional Scottishfolk tune.^[2] Theearliest known printing was in Tea Table Miscellany(1740). 'Lady Cassilles' Lilt' (aka 'Johnny Faa, the GypsieyLaddie') is among the Skene manuscripts from the 17thcentury.^[3]

Nick Tosches inhis Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'N' Roll, spendspart of his first chapter examining the song's history. He comparesthe song's narrative to the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The ballad, according to Tosches, retells the storyof John Faw, a 17th century outlaw, described as a Scottish Gypsy, and LadyJane Hamilton, wife of John Kennedy, 6th Earlof Cassilis. Lord Cassilis led a band of men (some sources say16, other 7) to abduct her. They were caught and hanged on the'Dool Tree' in 1643. The 'Gypsies' were killed (except for one, whoescaped) and Lady Jane Hamilton was imprisoned for the remainder ofher life, dying in 1642.

Robert Burnsused the song in his Reliques of Robert Burns; consistingchiefly of original letters, poems, and critical observations onScottish songs (1808).

Description

The song tells of a Gypsy who tries, successfully, to charmthe unmarried daughter of a squire. He promises her wealth and shegoes off with him. When the squire comes home and discovers whathas happened he rides off in search of his daughter, and after along chase he finds her. The final encounter is where the daughterrefuses to come home, saying 'What care I for your fine feathersheets?'

In other versions she is married, and her lord comes home tofind his lady 'gone with the gypsy laddie.' He saddles his fastesthorse to follow her. He finds her and bids her come home, asking'Would you forsake your husband and child?' She will not return,preferring the cold ground and the gypsy's company to her lord'swealth and fine bed.

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In another version the gypsy has six brothers, and when thesquire has caught up with them he has all seven of the raggletaggle Gypsies hanged. In some versions the gypsy turns out to begenuinely wealthy. The song 'Lizzie Lindsay' hasa similar theme. Robert Burns adapted the song into 'SweetTibby Dunbar,' a shorter version of the story.

There is also children's version by Elizabeth Mitchell whichhas lyrical content changed to be about a young girl 'charminghearts of the ladies', and sailing 'across the deep blue sea, wherethe skies are always sunny'.

Although the hero of this song is often called 'Johnny Faa' oreven 'Davy Faa,' he should not be confused with the hero/villain of'Davy Faa (Remember the Barley Straw).' [Silber and Silbermisidentify all their texts] as deriving from 'Child 120,' which isactually 'Robin Hood's Death.' According toThe Faber Book of Ballads the name Faa was commonamong Gypsies in the 17th century.

Alternativetitles

• 'Black Jack Davy'
• 'Black Jack Davey'
• 'Black Jack David'
• 'Blackjack David'
• 'Clayton Boone'
• 'The Gypsy Davy'
• 'The Gypsy Rover'
• 'Johnny Faa'
• 'Davy Faa'
• 'The Raggle Taggle Gipsies'
• 'The Raggle Taggle Gypsies'
• 'The Wraggle Taggle Gypsy'
• 'The Lady and the Gypsy'
• 'Three Gypsies'
• 'Harrison Brady'
• 'Gypson Davy'
• 'Gypsy Davey'
• 'Black-Eyed Davy'
• 'Black Eyed Daisy'
• 'Black-eyed Gypsy'
• 'The Heartless Lady'
• 'Egyptian Davio'
• 'It Was Late in the Night'
• 'When Johnny Came Home'
• 'The Gyps of Davy'
• 'The Dark-Clothed Gypsy'
• 'Seven Yeller Gypsies'
• 'Black Jack Baby'

Relation to other folktraditions

The theme of the wandering gypsy or labourer is frequently foundin folk music (e.g. an Irish language song called 'An SpailpínFánach' has an Irish Traveller or a seasonallabourer).

Recordings

• Cliff Carlisle, 'Black Jack David' (Decca 5732, 1939)
• CarterFamily, 'Black Jack David' (Conqueror 9574, 1940)
• WoodyGuthrie, 'Gypsy Davy' (on A Treasury of Library of CongressField Recordings, 1941)
• O. J. Abbott, 'The Gypsy Daisy'
• John JacobNiles, 'The Gypsy Laddie' (on Sings American FolkSongs, ?1956)

  (on Irish and British Songs from the Ottawa Valley,1961, recorded 1957)

1. • Pete Seeger,'Gypsy Davy' (on Pete Seeger Sings American Ballads,1957)

• Harry Jackson, 'Clayton Boone' (on The Cowboy: His Songs,Ballads & Brag Talk, 1957)
• Burl Ives 'TibbyDunbar' (on In the Quiet of the Night, 1958)
• Mary Jo Davis, 'Black Jack Davy' (on Folk MusicU.S.A., 1959)
• Harry Cox, JeannieRobertson, Paddy Doran [composite] 'The Gypsy Laddie' (as 'TheGypsie Laddie'),

  (on Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales:Classis Ballads of Britain and Ireland, vol 2, 2000,originally issued in shorter form in 1961)

• Jean Ritchie,'Gypsy Laddie' (on British Traditional Ballads in the SouthernMountains, vol 1, 1961)
• Tossi Aaron, 'Gypsy Davy' (on Philadelphia Folk Festival,vol. 2, Prestige/International 13072, 1962)
• Margaret MacArthur, 'Gypsy Davy' (on Folk songs ofVermont, 1963)
• Maire Aine Ni Dhonnchadha, 'The Gypsy-O'

  (on Traditional Music of Ireland, vol 2: Songs and Dancesfrom Down, Kerry and Clare, 1963)

• Lawrence Older, 'Gypsy Davy' (on Adirondack Songs, Balladsand Fiddle Tunes, 1963)
• New Lost City Ramblers, 'BlackJack David'

  (on The New Lost City Ramblers, vol 4, 1962);

(also 'Black Jack Daisy' (on Remembrance of Things toCome, 1966)

• Warren Smith, 'Black Jack David'(Sun 250, 1956)
• Tommy Makem(solo), 'The Whistling Gypsy' (On Folk Songs AndMinstrelsy, Vanguard Records, 1960)
• TheClancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, 'The Whistling Gypsy' (OnThe Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem, Columbia Records,1961)
• The ChadMitchell Trio, 'The Whistling Gypsy Rover' (On Mighty DayOn Campus, Kapp Records, 1961)
• TheKingston Trio, 'The Gypsy Rover' (On Close-Up, CapitolRecords, 1961)
• The Highwaymen, 'GypsyRover' (1961)
• Barbara Dane,'Gypsy Davy' (on When I was a Young Girl, 1961)
• Davy Graham 'Seven Gypsies' (on Folk,Blues and Beyond, 1964)
• The Corries'Whistling Gypsy' (on The Promise OfThe Day, 1965)
• BuffySainte-Marie 'House Carpenter' (on Little Wheel Spin andSpin, 1966)
• ShirleyCollins, 'Seven Yellow Gypsies' (on Power of the True LoveKnot, 1967)
• MartinCarthy, 'Seven Yellow Gypsies' (on Prince Heathen,1969)
• Fotheringay,'Gypsy Davey' (on Fotheringay, 1970)
• IncredibleString Band, 'Black Jack Davy' (on I Looked Up, 1970, note - this versionis original, written by Mike Heron but tells a similar story as theothers)
• ChristyMoore, 'The Raggle Taggle Gipsies' (on Prosperous,1972)
• Planxty, 'Raggle TaggleGypsy' (on Planxty, 1973)
• Arlo Guthrie,'Gypsy Davy' (on Last of the BrooklynCowboys, 1973)
• Taj Mahal, 'Blackjack Davey' (onMo'Roots, 1974)
• Steve Gaines,'Black Jack Davey' (on One in the Sun, 1975)
• Wizz Jones, 'GypsyDavey' (on Lazy Farmer, 1975)
• TheWatersons 'Seven Yellow Gypsies' (on For Pence and SpicyAle, 1975)
• SteeleyeSpan, 'Black Jack Davy' (on All Around My Hat, 1975)
• Kevin Roth, 'BlackJack Davy' (on Kevin Roth Sings and Plays Dulcimer,1975)
• Dillard Chandler, 'Black Jack Daisy' (on The End of an OldSong, 1975)
• Tannahill Weavers, 'Gypsy Laddie' (onAre Ye Sleeping Maggie, 1976)
• DoloresKeane, 'Seven Yellow Gypsies' (on There Was A Maid,1978)
• The Bully Wee Band 'Tibby Dunbar' (on Madmen ofGotham, 1981)
• Golden Bough, 'Black Jack Davy' (on The Boatman'sDaughter, 1983)
• TheWaterboys, 'The Raggle Taggle Gypsy' (on Room to Roam,1990)
• Bob Dylan,'Blackjack Davey' (on Good as I Been to You,1992)
• Chesapeake, 'Black Jack Davey' (on Rising Tide,1994)
• Cordelia'sDad, 'Gypsy Davy' (on Comet, 1995)
• Sandra And Nancy Kerr, 'Seven Yellow Gypsies' (on Neat andComplete, 1996)
• SharonKnight, 'Black Jack Davy' (on Incantation, 1996)
• Rapalje 'Raggle Taggle Gypsy' (on Into Folk, 1998& Celtic Fire, 2008)
• Dave Alvin,'Blackjack David' (on Blackjack David, 1998)
• Waterson:Carthy 'Ragggle Taggle Gipsies' (on BrokenGround, 1999)
• CarlosNúñez 'The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (on Os Amores Libres,1999)
• Grace Notes 'Gypsy Davey' (on Red Wine and Promises1999)
• TheProdigals, 'Black-eyed Gypsy' (on Go On, 1999)
• The Empty Hats, 'Raggle Taggle Gypsys' (on GreatestHats, 2002)
• TheWhite Stripes, 'Black Jack Davey' (on Seven NationArmy, 2003)
• Jim Moray, 'Gypsies'(on Sweet England, 2003)
• Benji Kirkpatrick, 'The Gypsy Laddie' (on Half A FruitPie, 2004)
• Rosie Doonan & Ben Murray, 'Gypsy Davy' (on MillLane, 2004)
• Alison Moyet,'The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies-O!' (on Voice, 2004)
• Harem Scarem 'Tibby Dunbar'(on The Birnam Witch Project, 2005)
• June Tabor,'Gypsum Davey' (on Always, 2005)
• Nic Jones, 'SevenYellow Gypsies' (on Game Set Match, 2006)
• CelticThunder, 'Raggle Taggle Gypsy' (on Celtic Thunder.2008)
• Ariella Uliano, 'The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies' (on Leave OnlyYour Footsteps Behind, 2008)

• John Smith, 'SevenGypsies' (2009)

Broadsides

• Bodleian, Harding B 11(1446), 'Gypsy Laddie,' W. Stephenson(Gateshead), 1821-1838; also Harding B 11(2903), 'Gypsy Loddy';Harding B 19(45), 'The Dark-Eyed Gipsy O'; Harding B 25(731),'Gipsy Loddy'; Firth b.25(220), 'The Gipsy Laddy'; Harding B11(1317), 'The Gipsy Laddie, O'; Firth b.26(198), Harding B15(116b), 2806 c.14(140), 'The Gipsy Laddie'; Firth b.25(56),'Gypsie Laddie'
• Murray, Mu23-y3:030, 'The Gypsy Laddie,' unknown, 19C
• NLScotland, L.C.Fol.178.A.2(092), 'The Gipsy Laddie,' unknown,c. 1875
• Tosches, Nick(1996). Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'N' Roll. DaCapo Press. ISBN 0-306-80713-0.

Crossreferences

• cf. 'The Roving Ploughboy' (theme, lyrics, tune)
• Bob Dylan's 'Tombstone Blues' has:

And Gypsy Davey with a blowtorch he burns out their camps

With his faithful slave Pedro behind him he tramps

• Also there is a joke:- How many folksingers does it take tochange a light bulb?

There were seven yellow Gypsies all in a row

They were brave and bonny-O

One to change the bulb and one to tell the tale

And there's five to run away with the lady-O^[4]

Notes

1. ^The English and Scottish popular ballads By Francis JamesChild
2. ^The English and Scottish popular ballads By Francis JamesChild
3. ^Child, 'Raggle-TaggleGypsies'
4. ^Lightbulb jokes

Externallinks

• 'The Wraggle TaggleGipsies-O' melody and lyrics
• Origins: 'The Raggle-TaggleGypsy' at The Mudcat Café
• {note FAQ}} 'FAQ'.mikescottwaterboys. http://www.mikescottwaterboys.com/mikescottwaterboys/mainframes.asp?file=News/faq.htm. Retrieved October 282005.
• Variant lyrics, with chordsfrom The Waterboys arrangement

'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'.

Popularity[edit]

In the folk tradition the song was extremely popular, spread all over the English-speaking world by broadsheets and oral tradition. It went under a great many titles, including 'Black Jack Davy', 'The Gypsy Laddie', 'The Draggletail Gypsies', 'Seven Yellow Gypsies' and 'Johnnie Faa'. 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.'^[1]

The song was also published in books. Robert Burns used the song in his Reliques of Robert Burns; consisting chiefly of original letters, poems, and critical observations on Scottish songs (1808). Due to the Romanichal origins of the main protagonist Davie or Johnny Faa, the ballad was translated into Anglo-Romany in 1890 by the Gypsy Lore Society.^[2][3]

One version, collected and set to piano accompaniment by Cecil Sharp, reached a much wider public. Under the title 'The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies O!', it was published in several collections, most notably one entitled English Folk Songs for Schools,^[4] leading the song to be taught to generations of English school children.

In America, the country music recording industry spread versions of the song by such notable musicians as Cliff Carlisle and the Carter Family, and later by the rockabilly singer Warren Smith, under the title 'Black Jack David'. In the American folk music revival, Woody Guthrie sang and copyrighted a version he called 'Gypsy Davy' (which was later also sung by his son Arlo).

The Cecil Sharp sheet music version was occasionally used by jazz musicians, for example the instrumental 'Raggle Taggle' by the Territory band Boots and His Buddies, and the vocal recording by Maxine Sullivan.

Synopsis[edit]

The core of the song's story is that a lady forsakes a life of luxury to run off with a band of gypsies. In some versions there is one individual, named, for example as Johnny Faa or Black Jack Davy. In some versions there is one leader and his six brothers. In one local tradition, the lady is identified as the wife of the Earl of Cassilis. In some versions the gypsies charm her with their singing, or even cast a spell over her. In a typical version, the lord comes home to find his lady 'gone with the gypsy laddie'. He saddles his fastest horse to follow her. He finds her and bids her come home, asking 'Would you forsake your husband and child?' She refuses to return: in many versions preferring the cold ground ('What care I for your fine feather sheets?') and the gypsy's company to her lord's wealth and fine bed. At the end of some versions the husband kills the gypsies. In the local Cassilis tradition, they are hanged on the Cassilis Dule Tree.

Origins[edit]

The earliest text may be 'The Gypsy Loddy', published in the Roxburghe Ballads with an assigned date of 1720. A more certain date is 1740, the publication of Allan Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany, which included the ballad as of 'The Gypsy Johnny Faa'. Differences between the two texts suggest that they derive from one or more earlier versions. They were followed by several printings, often copying Ramsay. It was then printed by most of the nineteenth century broadside printers.^[5]

In 'The Gypsy Loddie'

As soon as her fair face they saw
They called their grandmother over

This is assumed to be a corruption of They cast their glamour over her (i.e. they cast a spell), not vice versa. This is the motivation in many texts for the lady leaving her lord; in others she leaves of her own free will.^[6]

In some texts the lord is identifies as 'Cassilis', and a local tradition identifies him as the John Kennedy 6th Earl of Cassilis. B. H. Bronson^[7] discovered that a tune in the Skene manuscripts and dated earlier than 1600, resembles later tunes for this song and is entitled 'Lady Cassiles Lilt'.^[8] The inference is that a song concerning Lord and Lady Cassilis existed before the two earliest manuscripts, and was the source of both.

Who Was Black Jack Davey Lyrics

Nick Tosches, in his Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'N' Roll, spends part of his first chapter examining the song's history. He compares the song's narrative to the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The ballad, according to Tosches, retells the story of John Faa, a 17th-century outlaw, described as a Scottish Gypsy, and Lady Jane Hamilton, wife of The Earl of Cassilis. Lord Cassilis led a band of men (some sources say 16, others 7), to abduct her. They were caught and hanged on the 'Dool Tree' in 1643. The 'Gypsies' were killed (except for one, who escaped) and Lady Jane Hamilton was imprisoned for the remainder of her life, dying in 1642.^[9]

Related songs[edit]

The song 'The Whistling Gypsy' also describes a lady running off with a 'gypsy rover'. However, there is no melancholy, no hardship and no conflict.

The song 'Lizzie Lindsay' has a similar theme. Robert Burns adapted the song into 'Sweet Tibby Dunbar', a shorter version of the story. There is also a children's version by Elizabeth Mitchell which has lyrical content changed to be about a young girl 'charming hearts of the ladies', and sailing 'across the deep blue sea, where the skies are always sunny'.

Although the hero of this song is often called 'Johnny Faa' or even 'Davy Faa', he should not be confused with the hero/villain of 'Davy Faa (Remember the Barley Straw)'. [Silber and Silber misidentify all their texts] as deriving from 'Child 120', which is actually 'Robin Hood's Death'. According to The Faber Book of Ballads the name Faa was common among Gypsies in the 17th century.

Recordings[edit]

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:

Broadsides[edit]

• Bodleian, Harding B 11(1446), 'Gypsy Laddie', W. Stephenson (Gateshead), 1821–1838; also Harding B 11(2903), 'Gypsy Loddy'; Harding B 19(45), 'The Dark-Eyed Gipsy O'; Harding B 25(731), 'Gipsy Loddy'; Firth b.25(220), 'The Gipsy Laddy'; Harding B 11(1317), 'The Gipsy Laddie, O'; Firth b.26(198), Harding B 15(116b), 2806 c.14(140), 'The Gipsy Laddie'; Firth b.25(56), 'Gypsie Laddie'
• Murray, Mu23-y3:030, 'The Gypsy Laddie', unknown, 19C
• NLScotland, L.C.Fol.178.A.2(092), 'The Gipsy Laddie', unknown, c. 1875

References[edit]

1. ^Roud, Steve & Julia Bishop (2012). The New Penguin Book of Folk Songs. Penguin. ISBN978-0-14-119461-5. p. 446
2. ^Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society Vol. II, London 1890–91
3. ^The English and Scottish popular ballads By Francis James Child
4. ^Baring Gould, Sabine and Cecil Sharp English Folk Songs for Schools. 1906. Curwen.
5. ^Roud & Bishop, p. 447.
6. ^quoted in Roud & Bishop, p. 447.
7. ^Bronson, Bernard Harris, The Traditional Tunes of The Child Ballads, Princeton University Press. 1959–1972. Cited by Roud & Bishop p 447.
8. ^Child, 'Raggle-Taggle Gypsies'.
9. ^Tosches, Nick. (1996). Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'N' Roll. Da Capo Press. ISBN0-306-80713-0.
10. ^President Records / Jay Boy JSX2009

External links[edit]

• 'The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies-O' melody and lyrics
• Origins: 'The Raggle-Taggle Gypsy' at The Mudcat Café
• Covers at SecondHandSongs
• Covers at WhoSampled
• The Gypsy Laddie / Seven Yellow Gipsies / Raggle Taggle Gipsies at mainlynorfolk.info

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