sy Davy- Gilliam (AL) 2009 REC Rosenbaum
[No date given. I don't have liner notes. Two verses and chorus from: Dust-to-Digital DTD-12 ('Art of Field recording Vol. 2'); collector Art Rosenbaum. In the Roud Collection is added: Place collected USA: N. Carolina; Collector Gordon, Robert W. (not sure what this means or what Gordon has to do with this version).
R. Matteson 2015]
Gypsy Davy - Sung by Stan Gilliam of Athens, Georgia. He said, "Grandmother sang it kinda slow and sad."
1. Go pull off your high-heeled boots,
That were made of Spanish leather,
And give me a lock of your coal-black hair,
And fare-ye-well forever.
CHORUS: Robbie diddle dum fall dooley,
Robbie diddle dum fall, diddle diddle dum fall,
Diddle dum fall dooley.
2. Last night I slept on a warm feather bed,
My husband and baby beside me,
Tonight I sleep on a mountain high
Where the gypsies can't come nigh me.
CHORUS