The Raggle Taggle Gypsy
Album or single title Performer Year Title variant Notes
Early American Ballads ' John Jacob Niles 1938 The Gypsie Laddie 78 rpm record album
Black Jack David Cliff Carlisle 1939 Black Jack David Single on Decca label , reissued on Blue Yodeller And Steel Guitar Wizard ( 1996 ) & A Country Legacy ( 2004 )
Black Jack David Carter Family 1940 Black Jack David Single on Okeh label , resissued on several albums
Gypsy Davy Woody Guthrie 1944 Gypsy Davy Single recorded by Moses Asch reissued on several albums
Black Jack David T. Texas Tyler 1952 Black Jack David Single , reissued on CD by the British Archive of Country Music ( BACM )
Black Jack David Warren Smith 1956 Black Jack David Single , reissued on several albums
The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies Folk Songs & Ballades of Elizabethan England Alfred Deller 1956 The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies Vinyl LP the Cecil Sharp version sung in Elizabethan style by countertenor
The Foggy Dew and Other Traditional English Love Songs A. L. Lloyd 1956 The Seven Gypsies
Pete Seeger Sings American Ballads Pete Seeger 1957 Gypsy Davy
Songs and Ballads of the Ozarks Almeda Riddle 1960 Black Jack Davey
British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains Volume 1 Jean Ritchie 1961 Gypsy Laddie
The English And Scottish Popular Ballads Vol.2 , F.J. Child Ballads Ewan MacColl 1961 The Gypsy Laddie
Folk , Blues and Beyond Davey Graham 1964 Seven Gypsies
All the Good Times Alice Stuart 1964 Black Jack David
Remembrance of Things to Come New Lost City Ramblers 1966 Black Jack Daisy
The Power of the True Love Knot Shirley Collins 1968 Seven Yellow Gypsies
Prince Heathen Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick 1969 Seven Yellow Gypsies Reissued on Martin Carthy : A Collection ( Topic : TSCD750 , 1999 ) , Carthy also sings it live in the studio in July 2006 for the DVD Guitar Maestros
Ride a Hustler 's Dream Elmer Gantry 's Velvet Opera 1969 Black Jack Davy
I Looked Up The Incredible String Band 1970 Black Jack Davy Also ( as Black Jack David ) on Earthspan ( 1972 )
The Kerbside Entertainers Don Partridge 1971 Raggle Taggle Gypsies Solo vocal with acoustic guitar
Recordings
A vast number of artists and groups have recorded the song . This selection is limited to artists and/or albums found in other Wikipedia articles :
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (Roud 1, Child 200), is a traditional folk song that originated as a Scottish border ballad, and has been popular throughout Britain, Ireland and North America. It concerns a rich lady who runs off to join the gypsies (or one gypsy). Common alternative names are Gypsy Davy, The Raggle Taggle Gypsies O, The Gypsy Laddie(s), Black Jack David (or Davy) and Seven Yellow Gypsies.