Album : Songbook vol.2 (piste 11)
Durée : 2:10

Crédits

Musique et paroles : traditionnel

Paroles

There were three young gypsies came to our hall door,
They came brave and boldly O.
And there's one sang high and the other sang low
And the Lady's seen the raggle-taggle gypsie O

It was upstairs and downstairs the Lady went
Put on her suit of leather, O
It was the cry all around her door
She's away with the raggle-taggle gypsie O

It was late last night that the lord came in,
Inquiring for his Lady O
The serving girls replied to him all
She's away with the raggle-taggle gypsie O

O then saddle for me me milk-white steed
Me big horse is not speedy O
I will ride and I'll seek my bride,
She's away with the raggle-taggle gypsie O

O then he rode east, and he rode west
He rode north and south also,
But when he rode to the wide open field,
It was there that he spied his a-lady O.

O then why do you leave your house and your land?
Why do you leave your money, O?
And why do you leave your only only-wedded lord,
All for a raggle-taggle gypsie O?

What do I care for me house and me land?
What do I care for money, O?
And what do I care for me only-wedded lord,
I'm away with the raggle-taggle gypsie O!

Often you rode east when I rode west
You rode high when I rode low
I'd rather have a kiss of the yellow gypsy's lips
Than all the cashier's money, O.
I'd rather have a kiss, I'd rather have a kiss of the yellow gypsy's lips
Than all the cashier's money, O.

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Signification

"'Pourquoi as-tu quitté ton château et ton seigneur, pourquoi as-tu quitté tout ton argent et tes édredons de plumes ?' demande le lord à sa femme qui s'est enfuie dans la plaine avec les gitans... 'Qu'en ai-j' à faire de mon seigneur, de mon château et de mon argent ? Je suis partie avec un gitan en haillons, répond sa femme, et je préfère un baiser des lèvres dorées du gitan à tout l'or du banquier'." (livret de l'album)