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Thread #68510   Message #1154228
Posted By: Roberto
04-Apr-04 - 01:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Three Gypsies (Archie Fisher)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE THREE GYPSIES (from Archie Fisher)
Please, someone to check this transcription. The main problem is in the last stanza. Thanks. R

THE THREE GYPSIES
Archie Fisher, on Archie Fisher, 1968

Three gypsies cam tae oor hall door
O but they sang bonnie-O
They sang sae neat and sae complete
That they stole the hairt o' a lady-O

And she cam trippin' doon the stairs
Maidens twa afore her-O
When they spied her weel-faured face
They cast their spells oot-owre her-O

And she's kicked off her high-heeled schoon
Made of Spanish leather-O
Awa' she's gone wi' young Johnny Faa
Across the rocks and the heather-O

Lord Cashel (?) he came hame at e'en
Spierin' for his lady-O
The maid she cried and she replied:
She's awa' wi' the gypsy laddies-O!

Gae saddle to me the bonny, bonny black
For the broon was ne'er so speedy-O
When he cam to the water side
He spied his weel-faured lady-O

Will you come home, my honey and my heart?
Will you come home, my lady-O?
Would ye forsake a' your hooses and your land
Your lord and your fine wee bairnie-O?

Last night I lay in a fine feather-bed
Sheets and blankets so cosy-O
This nicht I'll lie in the cauld clay haugh
Rowed in the arms o' a gypsy-O