We dig Tam Lin and Matty Groves but how about Wraggle Taggle Gpsies aka Black Jack Davy (Child 200)? Most of the versions we know (and we know plenty) have a soap opera ending where she tells her husband to get lost and runs off with the gypsy to live happily ever after. In one version the gypsy tells her in the morning after that he can't marry her because she's not a gypsy after all, but thanks for the good time anyway.

Some scholars believe this song is based on a true story which has quite a different ending. On catching up with her, the husband forces her to watch while he hangs the gypsy and then imprisons her in the tower for life to pay for her sins.

Makes a fine story no matter which ending you choose!

Bev and Jerry