The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #61279   Message #984158
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
15-Jul-03 - 09:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Gypsy's Wedding Day
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gypsy's Wedding Day
See this earlier discussion: Lyr Add: Gypsy Girl, which includes a text from an American performer, Charlie Poole, and a link to the slightly mangled set in the DT. I supplied proper attribution for that text, which the DT does not give, a midi file of the tune (the link no longer works, but perhaps the file will re-appear in time), and a reference to broadside editions of the song. Ignore the links at the head of the DT file, incidentally; they are all to other references to the Carter family, whose input into that particular text seems to have been minimal; unless, I suppose, whoever originally supplied it happened to sing it to a tune he got from them, but failed to quote.

I don't know where Burl Ives got the set he recorded, though.