Sample demo for Sing Yonder song book, included as 28pp PDF with album purchase.
lyrics
Three gypsies come round to my door,
And downstairs ran my lady-o.
And one sang high and one sang low
And one sang Bonny Bonny Biscay-o.
Then she took off her silken gown
And dressed in hose of leather-o.
The dirty rags all around my door;
And she’s gone with the raggle-taggle gypsies-o.
Twas late at night my lord returned
Enquiring for his lady-o.
The servants one and all replied,
Well she’s gone with the raggle-taggle gypsies-o.
Go harness up my milk white steed,
Go fetch to me my pony-o.
And I will ride and seek my bride
Who’s a-gone with the raggle-taggle gypsies-o.
So he rode high and he rode low,
He rode through woods and copses too,
Until he came to a wide open field
Where he has spied his lady-o.
Why did you leave your new wedded lord
And your house and lands and money-o
To go and seek a roving life
All along with the raggle-taggle gypsies-o?
What care I for my new wedded lord
And my house and lands and money-o?
Tonight I’ll seek a roving life
All along with the raggle-taggle gypsies-o.
Last night she slept in a goose-feather bed
With the sheets turned down so bravely-o;
Tonight she’ll lie in the cold open field
All in the arms of the raggle-taggle gypsies-o.
What care I for a goose-feather bed
With the sheets turned down so bravely-o?
Tonight I’ll lie in the cold open field
All in the arms of the raggle-taggle gypsies-o.
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Because I couldn't decide what my favourite track was. It's a beautiful album and every track could be my favourite. However, I am a soppy git so I chose stowaway. Thank you Jon and keep up the good work. amediamonkey
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The superlatives and adjectives stack up and seem all too obvious to give this piece of work the credit it deserves, in short bad poetry would devalue the purity of the project; but lets check them off, haunting, moving, achingly beautiful, soulful, unsettling, emotive, heart-breaking and warmly consoling, a thing of profound beauty- everything a grown-up audience could want from a grown up collection. Thank you Angeline. Neil S. Reddy
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