The Gipsy Laddie- Quilter (NS) 1929 Karpeles A/ Bronson 62.
[Four stanzas from Karpeples; Folk Songs From Newfoundland, 1934, I, p. 14; also Karpeles MSS., No. 5172; text, p. 470, where she spells the title "Gipsy" with an "i."
R. Matteson 2015]
"The Gipsy Laddie" Sung by Mrs. Margaret Quilter, Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, October 8, 1929.
Two little gipsies live at the East
And they were smart and gaily O
And they sang so sweet and so very very sweet
They stole Lord Charlie's lady O.
So Lord Charlie he came home
Enquiring for his lady O.
Up speaks one of his old servant men,
Saying: She's follow on a gipsy laddie O.
Saying: Will you come home, my fair lady,
Will you come home, my honey,'
And will you forsake your own native land
And follow on a gipsy laddie O?
I'll forsake my own native land,
Likewise my lord and Charlie O,
And I'll forsake my own native land
And follow on a gipsy laddie O.