The Dark-Eyed Gipsy- Courage(NS) 1930 Karpeles C
[My title. Single stanza with music from Karpeles; Folk Songs From Newfoundland, 1934, I, p. 14; also Karpeles MSS., No. 5277, where she spells it "Gipsy". Cf. Barry F, the Irish broadside.
R. Matteson 2015]
C. [Dark-eyed Gipsy] The Gipsy Laddie -Sung by Mrs. Jacob Courage, Frenchman's Cove Garnish, Fortune Bay, July 13, 1930
Will you forsake your house and land,
Will you forsake your mother too,
Will you forsake your house and land
To follow the dark-eyed gipsy true?