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Black Jack Davy

from Incantation by Sharon Knight

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A ribald tale based on a traditional song (with many versions!) about a girl who'll take the lusty freedom of a gypsy boy over the riches of a stuffy lord any day.

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Black Jack Davy
(Sharon Knight)

I left my lover sleeping on the moonlit sand
So I could follow the gypsy band.
With only the clothes that I wore that night
I went chasing after my heart’s delight.
For just one kiss of the gypsy king
Oh, I would dance and I would sing
Raven Hair and eyes of green
He was the prettiest man that I’d ever seen.

Folly all the day and they called him the black Jack Davy.
Folly all the day with his hair all thick and wavy.

Two nights after we were on the road
A rider came and handed me a note.
Red-haired woman, our husband’s loose
Take care or you’ll be hanging from the hangman’s noose.
So away we fled to the moss green woods
The deep forest home of Jolly Robin Hood.
And there my gypsy risked his life
For the honeysuckle pleasures of another man’s wife

My husband came upon us in the woods at last,
After many nights of love with the Gypsy King had passed.
“Don’t you miss your goose feather bed?
The fire in the hearth, and the man that you wed?”
Then I stood bold and I stood proud,
Spoke my words both strong and loud.
“I’d trade all the comforts that your money buys
For a gypsy’s passion under starry, starry skies.”

His face went cold and he drew his gun,
He said to the gypsy “you can fight or you can run.”
So I surrendered, said, “I’ll give you no strife.
I’ll go with you in peace if you spare my lover’s life.”
But as we ride away I smile secretly,
For it won’t be very long until my husband goes to sea.
I’m thinking ‘bout my love, and the time is coming soon
When we’ll be making love beneath the fullness of the moon.

credits

from Incantation, released April 1, 1996
Sharon Knight: vocals, acoustic guitar
Winter: electric guitar, harmony vocals
Robin Silver: recorder, tambourine
Karl Franzen: mandola
Trey Long: bass
Rich Sherwood: drums

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Festival favorites Sharon Knight and her longtime collaborator Winter perform a mythic-Celtic style, which they call "Neofolk Romantique; songs for poets, adventurers and lovers of mystery". They tour internationally several months of the year, bringing their fantastical tales of love and magic to festivals, cafes, and homes across the land. ... more

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