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Nick Jonah Davis / Ellen Mary McGee - Seven Gypsies

from Odds and Ends​.​.​. by Nick Jonah Davis

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This track was featured on the 2013 Woolf Music compilation, available for download over at woolfmusic.bandcamp.com/album/woolf-music-compilation

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A reworking of the Davy Graham version of this traditional song, from his 1964 LP 'Folk, Blues and Beyond'

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from Odds and Ends​.​.​., track released July 17, 2013
Lyrics:

Seven gypsies stood in a row
And they sang so sweetly through the air
They sang so sweet, so very sweet
They stole the heart of a lady fair

She stood in her castle high
Smiling on those gypsies-o
A jealous thought came into her mind
She would follow the dark-eyed gypsies-o

Her young lord came home that night
enquiring for his lady-o
"I'm afraid, I'm afraid," said the old kitchen maid
"She's gone with the dark-eyed gypsies-o"

He rode east and he rode west
'Til he came to a farmer's door
"Farmer, farmer tell me the truth
Have you seen the dark-eyed gypsies-o?"

"Ride on, ride on," the farmer cried
"Down in yonder valley-o
There you'll find your own true bride
In the arms of a dark-eyed gypsy-o"

"Will you forsake your house and land
will you give up your little son
will you lie on the cold cool ground
In the arms of a dark eyed gypsy-o"

"I'll give up, my lord," she said, "I'll forsake my little son
I'll eat off the grass and drink of the dew
And lie with the dark eyed gypsy-o"

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Nick Jonah Davis England, UK

Nick Jonah Davis is a guitarist and composer drawing primarily on British and American folk traditions. His most recent release, ‘When the Sun Came’, was featured as one of 12 ‘Best of British’ guitar records in Acoustic Magazine, with a 5-page feature on Nick in the same edition. It is one of Folk Radio’s ‘Best Albums of 2020’. ... more

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