Hey guys
This is my entry for this weeks open mic.
The theme of Ultimate Freedom made me think of This old Raggle Taggle Gypsy song.
The song tells the story of a young woman running away with a band of traveling gypsy musicians.
I imagine she is tempted away by the care free life the musicians live and forsakes here wealthy and pampered life to join the band of travelers.
So yeah I was inspired by the care free life of the traveling people this week and figured I would take a shot at this old Gypsy folk song.
"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy"
There were three auld gypsies came to our hall door.
They came brave and boldly-o.
And one sang high and the other sang low
And the other sang a raggle taggle gypsy-o.
It was upstairs, downstairs the lady went,
Put on her coat of leather-o,
And there came a cry from around her door;
“She’s away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o”
It was late that night when the lord came in,
Enquiring for his lady-o,
And the servant girl’s says to the lord;
“She’s away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o”
“Then saddle for me my milk-white steed
Me big horse is not speedy-o
And I will ride and I’ll seek me bride,
She’s away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o”
He rode east and he rode west
He rode north and south also,
Until he came to a wide open plain
It was there that he spied his lady-o.
“How could you leave your house and your land,
How could you you leave your money-o?
How could you leave your only wedded lord
All for the raggle taggle gypsy-o?”
“What care I for me house and me land?
What care I for money-o?
Id rather have a kiss from a yellow gypsies lips?
I’m away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o”
“How could you leave your goose feather bed,
Blankets strewn so comely-o.
And how could you leave your old wedded lord
All for a raggle taggle gypsy-o”
“What care I for me goose feather bed?
what care I for blankets-o?
Tonight I lie in a wild open field?
I’m away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o”
Awesome storytelling in this song. Man, the "wild" life speaks to me a lot, sleeping under the stars, lighting fires, running through the woods! I'm a family man now, and I still have cravings to live like the gypsy, the nomad, the mustang... "Wild hearts run free," as they say. Dig it.
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Thanks for your amazing live music performance!
This song is golden, haha
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