Gypsen Baby- Calloway (NC) 1918 Sharp MS
[My title. From Sharp MSS., 4615/3224; titled "I'm seventeen Come Sunday," or "The Gypsy Laddie." Bronson 7.
R. Matteson 2015]
[Gypsen Baby] -- Sung by Mrs. Margaret Callaway, Burnsville, N.C., September 16, 1918.
Will you court me, my pretty little Miss?
Will you court me, my honey?
She answered me with a smile on her face:
I'll court just any body.
I'll sling my shot-pouch to my back,
My musket on my shoulder,
I'll march away to the foreign land,
And there I'll make a soldier.
I'll go catch up my little bay horse,
My bay it is so speedy;
I'll ride all day and I'll ride all night,
I'll overtake my daisy.
I rid all day and I rid all night,
And I overtook my daisy.
I found her lying on a cold river bank
In the arms of a gypsen baby.