Gypsy (video) (intro)

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1. I was only seventeen, I fell in love with a gypsy queen

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she told me: "Hold on."

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Her father was the leading man, said: "You're not welcome on our land !"

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And then as a foe, he told me to go.

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Aah !

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2. He took me to a little shack, and put a whip across my back,

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then told her: "Leave me!"

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I was out for quite a time, came back with her on my mind

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sweet little girl, she means all the world.

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Aah !

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3. Oh, I want my gypsy queen, will she still be torn between

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her father and lover ?

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One day I will go to him, strong enough to fight and win,

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the kind of a man that he'll understand !

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Aah ! Aah ! - - - Aah !

(orig. = capo 3rd) (Uriah Heep)