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GUEST,JeffB	Origins: The Raggle-Taggle Gypsy (128* d)	RE: Origins: The Raggle-Taggle Gypsy	18 Jul 16
My favourite version was found by the American collector James Madison Carpenter. He is better known for the collection of shanties he made in the 1930s, but at some point he was in Oxfordshire where he met a mason called George Giles, who gave him a fine version he called "The daggle-tailed gypsies". Or perhaps he called it "The draggled-tailed gypsies" and Carpenter mis-heard him: it was recorded from Mr Giles under the latter title by Alfred Williams. Wiltshire County Council's website has a section which holds over 1000 of the texts Williams collected in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire in the folk arts/song search page at https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/folk It also includes the version Mr Giles gave to Carpenter with the tune.

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