In a posting above dated 6-14-02, I mistakenly said that Dorothy Scarborough did not have a tune for her version of "Gypsy Davy". The other day I was back in the library and taking another look at her book, A SONG CATCHER IN THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS, and I found the tune in the back of the book on page 414. While in a different key from that of Cox's version (which is from the same source and is basically the same song - Cox's tune is available above from Malcolm's posting), it is essentially the same tune, minus the chorus. Cox's is the more complete rendition.

Bronson include's the Cox/Scarborough(from Widdemer Schuffler)version in his grouping Ab, a collection of 12 variations of "The Gypsy Laddie", all from North America, and all with some kind of non-sense syllable chorus, and all following the same sort of tune outline. It is interesting that none of these come from Ireland or England. This general grouping is perhaps the milieu from which Maguire's "Gypsy Rover" comes.