"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" (Roud 1, Child 200), is a traditional folk song that originated as a Scottish border ballad, and has been popular throughout Britain, Ireland and North America. It concerns a rich lady who runs off to join the gypsies (or one gypsy). Common alternative names are "Gypsy Davy", "The Raggle Taggle Gypsies O", "The Gypsy Laddie(s)", "Black Jack David" (or "Davy") and "Seven Yellow Gypsies".
Cover of Francis James Child's ''English and Scottish Popular Ballads'
Allan Ramsay
Percy Grainger, 1907, composer and song collector
Jean Ritchie, Appalachian singer
Margaret Kennedy, Countess of Cassilis
Margaret Kennedy, Countess of Cassilis was a Scottish aristocrat.
Margaret Kennedy lived at Maybole Castle.
Craigmulloch hill, near Straiton, South Ayrshire
Loch Doon, South Ayrshire