Gypsy Countess Part 2 from Baring Gould; Songs and Ballads of the West. Attributed to the blacksmith Woodrich

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.

2. They sang so sweet, they sang so shrill,
That fast her tears began to flow,
And she laid down her golden gown,
Her golden rings, and all her show,
   All her show &c

3. She plucked off her high-heeled shoes,
A-mde of Spanish leather, O
She would in the street, with her bare, bare feet;
All out of the wind and weather, O.
Weather, O! &c

4 She took in her hand but a posie,
The wildest flowers that do grow.
And down the stair, went the lady fair,
To go away with the gypsies, O!
The gipsies O! &c

5 At past midnight her lord came home,
And where his lady was would know.
All servants replied on every side,
"She's gone away with the gipsies O!"
    The gipsies O! &c

6 Then he rode high, and he rode low,
He rode through hills and valleys O,
Until he spied his fair young bride
Who'd gone away with the gipsies O,
The gipsies O! &c

7 O will you leave your house and lands,
Your golden treasures for to go,
Away from your lord that weareth a sword.
To follow along with the gipsies, O!
      The gipsies O! &c

8 O I will leave my house and lands,
My golden treasures for to go.
I love not my lord that weareth a sword,
I'll follow along with the gipsies O!
                   The gipsies O! &o:

9 'Nay, thou shalt not!' then he drew, I wot,
   The sword that hung at his saddle bow.
And once he smote on her lily-white throat,
And there her red blood down did flow
    Down did flow, &c

10 Then dipp'd in blood was the posie good,
That was of the wildest flowers that blow.
She sank on her side, and so she died,
For she would away with the gipsies 0!
                   The gipsies O!
For she would away with the gipsies 0!