"Gypsy Davey" is an American version of "The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies" (Child 200) a Scottish border ballad that has spread throughout Britain, Ireland and North America. The earliest text may be "The Gypsy Loddy", published in the Roxburghe Ballads of 1720, and Allan Ramsay's Tea-Table Miscellany of 1740, which included the ballad as "The Gypsy Johnny Faa". It was printed in Sharp's One Hundred English Folksongs. American versions are known as "Gypsy Davey" or "Blackjack Davy" The tunes are different but the story is the same. There have been numerous recordings of "The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies", "Gypsy Davey" and "Blackjack Davey" by Woody Guthrie, The Carter Family, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, The New Lost City Ramblers, Jean Ritchie, The Chieftans and many others. I learned "Gypsy Davey" from a Woody Guthrie recording. Other songs by Woody Guthrie in this section are: "Do Re Mi" "Deportees" "Hard Travelin'" "Hard, Ain't It Hard" "Pastures of Plenty" "The Philadelphia Lawyer" "The Reuben James" "Roll On Columbia" "So Long, It’s Been Good To Know You" "Talking Blues" "This Land Is Your Land" "Union Maid" "Woody's Rag"