Gipsies came to the castle gate

They sang so high, they sang so low

They sang so sweet, so very very sweet

They stole away the heart of the lady-o



She came stepping down the stairs

With all her maids before her--o

Soon as the gipsies saw her pretty face

They cast their glamourie oer her-o

She kicked off her heeled shoes

Made of Spanish leather-o

And shes out in the street in her bare, bare feet

Following the raggle taggle gipsies--o



Late that night when the lord came home

Enquiring for his lady-o

The servants gave him this reply

"Shes gone with the raggle taggle gipsies-o"



"Saddle me up my my bonny black steed

The white was never so speedy--o

That I may ride a long summers night

In search of my false lady-o"



He rode east and he rode west

Till he was wondrous weary-o

Until he got near to the banks of the sea

And there he found his lady-o



"Would you leave your house and your land?

Would you leave your baby-o?

And would you leave your newly wedded lord?

And follow the raggle taggle gipsies-o?"



"I would leave my house and land

I would leave my baby-o

Id rather have a kiss from the gipsy laddies lips

Than you and all your money-o



Last night I slept in a goose--feather bed

Sheets and blankets so cosy-o

Tonight I will lie in the cold open fields

With the gipsies lying all around me--o