Black Jack Daly- (NE) 1915 Pound- Syllabus

Black Jack Daly- (NE) 1915 Pound- Syllabus

[No informant named; title is secondary title given by Pound which indicates additional stanzas or another version in that region (probably Belden's 1905 "Black Jack Daley") with that title. From: Folk-Song of Nebraska and the Central West; A Syllabus by Louise Pound. From reports given before the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Sciences 1913-15.

R. Matteson 2015]


6. The Gipsy Laddie (Black Jack Daly, Child 200) entices a lady from her husband by his singing. One stanza recovered.

The gipsy came tripping over the plain,
The gipsy he sung bravely;
He sung till he made the wild woods ring
To charm the heart of a lady.