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Thread #158710 Message #3755712
Posted By: Richie
04-Dec-15 - 01:50 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Help with Gypsy Davy
Subject: RE: Origins: Help with Gypsy Davy
Thanks for the replies.
Here's a radical version of the ballad title "Radical Gypsy David" which was collected twice in Virginia- first by John Stone in 1921 (Davis D) and then by Shellans from Vass in 1959.
Here's a stanza from Vass:
Then he caught up his old grey horse,
And he caught up his pony;
He rode all night and he rode all day,
Till he overtook his honey.
The radical Gypsy David,
The radical Gypsy David.
What does "radical" mean here?
Richie