Steve,

Barry compares his E version with the Irish broadside text;

E. [Dark-Eyed Gipsy O] Taken down, without title, from the recitation of Mrs. Rose Robbins, Northeast Harbor, 1926.

1 Charles rode home in the middle of the night,
Inquiring for his lady O.
"She's gone, she's gone," cried his own servant maid,
"She's following the dark-eyed gipsy O."

2 "Go saddle, go saddle my milk-white steed,
The fastest of my horses O,
And I will ride the length of a night;
I'll find out that dark-eyed gipsy O."

3 He rode east and he rode west,
He rode south and northward, too,
Until he espied a gay old man,
And he was tired and weary O.

4 "Would you forsake your house and lands,
Would you forsake your children, too?"
"I'll eat of the grass and I'll drink of the dew
And I'll follow the dark-eyed gipsy O."

5 She took off her mantle, she tied it round her waist,
She look-ed gay and bonnie O,
Saying, "I'll eat of the grass, I'll drink of the dew
And I'll follow my dark-eyed gipsy O."