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In the days when we went gypsying A long time ago; The lads and lassies in their best Were dress'd from top to toe.
In the days when we went gypsying A long time ago; The lads and lassies in their best Were dress'd from top to toe.
Approximate author period: c. 1852 AD · industrial
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- Francis W. Bourdillon
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- Approximate author period: c. 1852 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Edwin Ransford: In the Days when we went Gypsying.
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