Gypsies
Late last night the gypsies came,
Nobody knows from where.
Where they’ve gone to no-one knows,
And no-one seems to care.
Down by the trees on the river road
I heard them singing round their fire.
A fiddler played into the night
For this wandering gypsy choir.
There were men with ’kerchiefs round their throats,
White-haired ancients, wise with years.
Dark-eyed girls in scarlet shawls
Danced with silver in their ears.
But in the morning they were gone,
Like an early mist to who knows where?
Only the cold north wind that blows
And sweeps the maple branches bare.
No sign of a mongrel gypsy dog,
No sign of a dancing gypsy child.
Only a burned-out gypsy fire
That lit their gypsy dance so wild.
Late last night the gypsies came,
Nobody knows from where.
Where they’ve gone to no-one knows,
And no-one seems to care,
Gypsies. Original poem Rachel Field.
New words and music © Bill Adair/Sad Jeb Music 2019
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