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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Maxine Sullivan
Author: traditional
Label: Circle
Year: 1941
Radio transcription with John Kirby's Orch. Cecil Sharp collected his first version in 1909 from an 80 year old shepherd in Oxfordshire (Shepherd Hayden) as Draggle-Tail Gypsies-O.
Covers:
Alan Dean with Joe Lipman Orch. [for MGM]
Susan Reed [as Wraggle Taggle Gypsy on Elektra lp Sings Old Airs From Ireland, Scotland And England]
Will Holt [as The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies]
Shirley Collins [as Seven Yellow Gypsies]
Martin Carthy [idem]
Kathleen MacDonald [as The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies]
Christy Moore [as Raggle Taggle Gypsy on his lp Prosperous, with all members of Planxty]
Dolores Keane [as Seven Yellow Gypsies]
Andreas Scholl [inspired by contratenor Alfred Deller]
Chieftains [with Nickel Creek]
Alison Moyet [as The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies-O]
Benji Kirkpatrick [as Draggle-tail Gypsies-O]
Decemberists [theme in Rox In The Box]
Child ballad #200. Relates with Black Jack David, Dark-Eyed Gypsy and The Gypsy Laddie (see there). The oldest version documented in The Skene Manuscripts (holding 17th century documents): Lady Casstilles Lilt, about a real lady kidnapped by gypsies and who apparantly enjoyed their company. This kind of Stockholm Syndrome prequel was also known as Johnny Faa, The Gypsiey Laddie. In 1624 Johnny Faa along with seven other gypsies was sentenced and hanged. He was Lady Jane Hamilton's lover, the wife of the sixth earl of Casillis. She ended up in a tower cell never to be seen again and that's the stuff where legends and saga songs are made of.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)