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Raggle​-​Taggle Gypsy

from Kill the Beast by Johnny Kowalski and the Sexy Weirdos

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There were three little gypsies
Came to our front door
They came brave and bawdy-o
And the one sang high and the other sang low
And the other sang a raglle-taggle gypsy-o

It was upstairs downstairs the lady ran
Put on her suit of leather-o
It was all the cry all around the door
"She'll away with the raggle-taggle gypsy-o!"

"O come saddle me for my milk white steed
My black one is not speedy-o
For I will ride and I'll seek my bride
Who's away with the raggle-taggle gypsy-o!

"Tell me why did you leave your house and your land?
Why did you leave the money-o?
Why did you leave your only wedded lord
To away with the raggle-taggle gypsy-o?"

"What should I care for my house and my land?
What should I care for the money-o?
What she I care for my only wedded lord
When I'm away with the raggle-taggle gypsy-o?"

"It was ere last night you had a goose feathered bed
With the sheets pulled down so comely-o
But tonight you'll lie in a cold open field
All alone with your raggle-taggle gypsy-o!"

"What should I care for my goose feathered bed
With the sheets pulled down so comely-o
For tonight I'll lie in a cold open field
All alone with my raggle-taggle gypsy-o!

"You rode east and you rode west
You rode woods and valleys-o
But I'd rather get a kiss from the yellow gypsy's lips
Than all of the cash and the money-o!"

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from Kill the Beast, released May 7, 2014
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Magic Garden Studios, Wolverhampton, February to March 2014.
Engineered by Gavin Monaghan and Joe Murray.
Produced by John-Joe Murray, Matthew Osborne and Gavin Monaghan.
Traditional arranged by Johnny Kowalski, John-Joe Murray, Matthew Osborne and Simon Noons.

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Johnny Kowalski and the Sexy Weirdos Birmingham, UK

"Multifarious, rebellious, debauched and fierce"
10 years,4 albums and thousands of tour miles of international party music and carnival punk. Too weird for the punks, too wild for the hippies, too artistically restless for the mainstream, too ambitious for the underground. Influences - Gogol Bordello, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Beat, Nestor Makhno, folk music for rebels, antifascism ... more

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