Gypsy
Songs
Lots of songs to sing in the tub!
Gitara
Chin cha mange gitarica
miri dayori lachori
mai dikhesa sa bashava
gilavava gilori
...
Shukares me bashavava
o hangi sa chivkerava
saro Roma shunena
savore yon khelena
English Translation
The guitar
O please just buy me a guitar
dear little mother of mine
then you will see how I will
play
and sing my songs sublime
Alright already!
I will play so beautifully
from chord to chord entranced,
the whole Romani people will
hear
and everyone will dance.
The Gypsy Gentleman
I'm the Romani rai,
I'm the true didikai,
I build all my castles beneath
the blue sky,
I live in a tent, and I
don't pay no rent,
And that's why they call
me - the Romani rai.
...
Chorus
Kakka chavvi, dick akai,
Father's gone to sell a
mush a kushti grai,
And that's why they call
him-the Romani rai.
..
I'm the Romani rai,
Just an old didikai,
My home is a mansion beneath
the blue sky,
I was born in a ditch, that's
why I'll never grow rich,
And that's why they call
me - the Romani rai.
Rai = lord
didakai = loo-'ere fellow (A rough ignorant
person)
kakkachavvi, dickakai = quiet boy, look here
mush = man
kushtigrai = good horse
Gypsy Caravan
...
I whiled away all the
years of my youth
Tending my fields searching
for the truth
Gazing past horizons to the
west
Hoping I'd see them before my
death.
..
Then one day they rumbled by
A gypsy caravan the color of
the sky
Water sparkled as the wheels
turned round
Across the river into the town.
..
Chorus: There's a gypsy caravan,
Rolling across the land,
They got singers and a dancing girl
That can make you dream about the wide wide world.
..
And their captain was a handsome
man
He had a sword and what looked
like a plan
But there was something wrong
in his eyes
Bloodshot and bleary from too
many nights
..
So we stayed up late in that
inn
Drinking over our secret sins
Each one wanting what the other
one had
We both said the "You're the
lucky man."
..
Chorus
..
Late the morning we agreed to
trade
Each other's lives for a later
date
Twenty years later again we'd
meet
And see if we'd both really
found our dreams
..
So I finally got to see the
world
And found for myself a blue
eyed girl
We raised three kids in the
back of that tent
Rolling through the night they
were heaven sent
..
Chorus.
..
Twenty years later again I returned
Only to find out what the we
both had learned
He had three kids and a wife
of his own
And those green fields had turned
into his home
..
We agreed to go our separate
ways
And I'll not see him til my
dying day
The man who gave my dreams to
me
Where I found a love for eternity
..
Chorus (Fini.).
Gypsy Soul
..
I see rivers and mountains,
I see valleys and meadows,
I see all the land about
you,
For I have a gypsy soul,
I have a gypsy soul,
I have a gypsy soul,
I have a gypsy soul and
love no one,
that's why it is easy
for me to roam.
I hear the stories and tales,
I hear the songs and music,
I hear the joys of mankind,
For I have a gypsy soul,
I have a gypsy soul,
I have a gypsy soul,
I have a gypsy soul and
love no one,
that's why it is easy
for me to roam.
I see the war and peace,
I see the death and birth,
I see all the bloodshed,
For I have a gypsy soul,
I have a gypsy soul,
I have a gypsy soul,
I have a gypsy soul and
love no one,
that's why it is easy
for me to roam.
I feel the stares and jeers,
I feel the envy and
fear,
I feel the spite against
me,
For I have a gypsy soul,
I have a gypsy soul,
I have a gypsy soul,
I have a gypsy soul and
love no one,
that's why it is easy
for me to roam.
Gypsy Love Song
..
Tropical night, Malaria moon
Dying stars of the silver screen
She danced that famous Gypsy
dance
With a hole in her tambourine
...
I was young enough and dumb
enough
I swallowed down my Mickey Finn
She'd hijacked a few hearts
all right
I went into a tailspin
...
Don't sing me, don't sing me,
don't sing me
No more gypsy love songs
Don't sing me, don't sing me,
don't sing me
No more gypsy love songs
Don't stir it up again
..
I put my arm around her waist
Says she, young man, you're
getting warm
The room was going somewhere
without me
And she laughed as she read
my palm
..
Chorus
..
Stillborn love, passionate dreams,
pitiful greed
And the silver tongues of the
tinker girls,
Who throw their book of life
at you
But don't know how to read
..
She was third generation Transylvanian
I was the seventh son of a seventh
son
I begged the band don't play
that tune
Please don't beguine the begun
..
When I awoke, she'd cut and
run
She stole my blueprints and
my change
Just a horseshoe and a note
on the bed
And all it said was--strange
..
Chorus
Sunlight
..
The faery beam upon you,
The stars to glister on
you;
A moon of light
In the noon of night,
Till the fire-drake hath
o'ergone you!
The wheel of fortune guide
you,
The boy with the bow beside
you;
Run ay in the way
Till the bird of day,
And the luckier lot betide
you!
..
To the old, long life and
treasure!
To the young all health
and pleasure!
To the fair, their face
With eternal grace
And the soul to be loved
at leisure!
To the witty, all clear
mirrors;
To the foolish, their dark
errors;
To the loving sprite,
A secure delight;
To the jealous, his own
false terrors!
Bite my Gypsy Earing
(Or The Parrot)
..
This song is dedicated to the
memory of Yellow Crunchy Button, a cockatiel
..
I felt your heart beat rapidly
Warm feathers on my shoulder
I was confused - what made me
think
that you'd be so much colder?
You took a chance - well, so
did I
Amazing how we grew
The way you got so "tall" to
me
I got so high on you
..
I wore my Gypsy earrings just
for you
Don't you love the way they
sparkle
like the sunlight on the dew?
I barely got to know you
I had so much to learn
You slipped right past me
while my back was turned.
..
Well things have changed - you
made a change
Much more than I expected.
My little crunchy button friend
On this I stand corrected
And nothing's ever lived in
vain
And nothing's gone to waste
And how I'd love once more to
see
Your silly little face
..
Repeat Chorus