Black Jack Davy- Chandler/Adams (NC) 2000 REC
[This is Inez Chandler's version as recorded by Sheila Kay Adams, putting the date back 75 years or so. The chorus could be:
Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum
Rattle tum a gypsum Davy.
I don't have this recording.
R. Matteson 2012]
Black Jack Davy- as recorded by Sheila Kay Adams, My Dearest Dear CD, Granny Dell Records 1220, 2000. Learned from Inez Chandler, she called it The Gypsum Laddie or Gypsy Davy. Inez Chandler was from Sodom Laurel, Madison County, NC although Inez moved a few miles to the town of Marshall. The ballad singers of Sodom include Dellie Chandler Norton, Berzillia Wallin, Cas and Vergie Wallin, Evelyn Ramsey, Inez Chandler, and Doug Wallin.
It was late one night when the squire come home
Inquiring for his lady
His servant man made a sure reply:
"She's gone with the Black Jack Davy."
Rattle tum a gypsy gypsy
Rattle tum a gypsy Davy
O go and saddle my milk-white steed
And be both quick and speedy
I'll ride all night till it's broad daylight
Till I overtake my lady
Rattle tum a gypsy gypsy
Rattle tum a gypsy Davy
He rode all night till he come to the town
To the gates he rode so early
The tears come a-rollin' down his cheeks
And there he spied his lady
Rattle tum a gypsy gypsy
Rattle tum a gypsy Davy
Come back, come back, my own true love
Come back, come back, my honey
I'll lock you up in my chamber so high
Where the gypsies can't come nigh you
Rattle tum a gypsy gypsy
Rattle tum a gypsy Davy
I won't come back as your own true love
Nor I won't come back your honey
I wouldn't trade a kiss from a gypsy's lips
For all your land and money
Rattle tum a gypsy gypsy
Rattle tum a gypsy Davy
Can you forsake your house and land
Will you forsake your baby?
And will you forsake your own wedded lord
And go with the Black Jack Davy?
Rattle tum a gypsy gypsy
Rattle tum a gypsy Davy
O, I'll forsake my house and land
I'll even forsake my baby
Gladly will I forsake my own true lord
To go with the Gypsy Davy
Rattle tum a gypsy gypsy
Rattle tum a gypsy Davy
It's go and pull off them snow-white boots
That's made of Spanish leather
And give to me your lily-white hand
And we'll bid farewell forever
Rattle tum a gypsy gypsy
Rattle tum a gypsy Davy
It's she pulled off her snow-white boots
That's made of Spanish leather
And she give to him her lily-white hand
And she said goodbye forever
Rattle tum a gypsy gypsy
Rattle tum a gypsy Davy
Two nights ago I laid on a feather-bed
My husband he laid nigh me
Tonight I lay on the cold hard ground
In the arms of the Back Jack Davy
Rattle tum a gypsy gypsy
Rattle tum a gypsy Davy
I did forsake so many fine things
Fine silken gowns and money
I did forsake my golden rings
For the love of the Black Jack Davy
Rattle tum a gypsum gypsum
Rattle tum a gypsum Davy