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