My Gypsy Lady

DESCRIPTION: "My gypsy lady, Won't you be my baby? I know I love you, I know I do, For in the springtime, The pretty ringtine, I know I love you, You know I do."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling)
KEYWORDS: love Gypsy | spring
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 22, "(My gypsy lady)" (1 text)
Roud #23015
NOTES [88 words]: Presumably this is in part an allusion to Shakespeare's "There Was a Lover and His Lass":
It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o'er the green cornfield did pass,
In springtime, the only pretty [ring] time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.
(As You Like It, Act V, scene iii, starting at line 16 in the Riverside edition. Ironically, the First Folio has "the only pretty rang time," but Thomas Morley's setting has the much more likely reading "ring.") - RBW
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