Posted by Dave Thewlis on December 10, 1997 at 18:51:59:
In Reply to: The raggle-taggle Gypsy-o posted by peter on December 10, 1997 at 12:58:07:
This is one of those songs that has very nearly as many versions as there were singers of it,
or at any rate compilers of folk song. Most of them have the lady coming to a bad end, probably
by catching her death of cold from sleeping on the cold hard ground.