Language: English 
Our translations:  DUT
My mother said I never should
play with the gipsies in the wood.
 ... 
The wood was dark, the grass was green,
by came Sally with a tambourine.
I went to sea, no ship to get across,
so I paid a shilling for a blind white horse;
I upped on his back and was off in a crack.
Sally tell my mother that I’m never coming back.

Composition:

    Set to music by John Frandsen (b. 1956), "Gypsies in the Wood", 1987, lines 1-2,7-12 [ voice and guitar ], from Seven Silly Songs, no. 2, confirmed with a CD booklet

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , "Mijn moeder zei", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Lidy van Noordenburg

This text was added to the website: 2023-06-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 93