Tradsinger,

Baring-Gould's MS of the Gypsy Countess is single ballad credited to James Parsons. However in Songs and Ballads of the West, 1892, he attributes the second part which begins:

1. Three gypsies stood at the castle gate,
They sang so high. they sang so low,
The lady sate in her chamber late,
Her heart it melted away as snow,
Away as snow
Her heart it melted away as snow.

to the blacksmith Woodrich. The second part is a version (or rewrite) of The Gypsy Laddie, with a different ending.

Baring Gould says of the prequel by Parsons: Taken down from an old and illiterate hedger, son of a more famous singer. Neither could read or write.

Richie