The Three Gypsies - Archie Fisher Chords
Chords: BBC, C, F
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Genre: folk, ballad, acoustic
Archie has described how he taught himself to write songs originally through
patching up incomplete
traditional material, while Ray and Archie also won widespread popularity
with their TV
appearances, singing topical songs on the current-affairs magazine show Here
and Now. This early
apprenticeship in writing to order, on specific subjects (later continued in
his work for BBC Schools
Radio), helped reinforce the expertise in marrying rhythm, melody and
language which has characterised
his songwriting ever since, with many of his compositions having entered the
contemporary folk-song canon.
[Verse 1]
C F C
Three gypsies cam tae oor hall door
C F C
O but they sang bonnie-O
C F C
They sang sae neat and sae complete
C F C
That they stole the hairt o' a lady-O
[Verse 2]
C F C
And she cam trippin' doon the stairs
C F C
Maidens twa afore her-O
C F C
When they spied her weel-faured face
C F C
They cast their spells oot-owre her-O
[Verse 3]
C F C
And she's kicked off her high-heeled schoon
C F C
Made of Spanish leather-O
C F C
Awa' she's gone wi' young Johnny Faa
C F C
Across the rocks and the heather-O
[Verse 4]
C F C
Lord Cashel (?) he came hame at e'en
C F C
Spierin' for his lady-O
C F C
The maid she cried and she replied:
C F C
She's awa' wi' the gypsy laddies-O!
[Verse 5]
C F C
Gae saddle to me the bonny, bonny black
C F C
For the broon was ne'er so speedy-O
C F C
When he cam to the water side
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