So fare you well, my honey!’

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There was seven gypsies in a gang,

And they was brisk and bonny,

And they’re to be hanged all on a row,

For the Earl of Castle’s lady.


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Shropshire Lolk-Lore, edited by Charlotte Sophia Burne, p. 550, as sung May 23, 1885, by gypsy children.

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