Gypsies

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Gypsies living on the South Side of Chicago: photo by Russell Lee, April 1941 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Take off, take off your buckskin gloves
Made of Spanish leather;
Give to me your lily-white hand
And we'll ride home together
We'll ride home again.

No, I won't take off my buckskin gloves,
They're made of Spanish leather.
I'll go my way from day to day
And sing with the Gypsy Davy
That song of the Gypsy Davy.

from The Ballad of Gypsy Davy (traditional, as performed by Woody Guthrie, 1942)

Statement of Permission, releasing the Guthrie version of the traditional Scots ballad song "Gypsy Davy" into public domain, from Woody Guthrie to Library of Congress, 9 March 1942 (Archive of American Folksong, Music Division, Library of Congress)

A group of Gypsy children, on U.S. 13, five miles south of Salisbury, Maryland: photo by Jack Delano, May 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Gypsy girl, five miles south of Salisbury, Maryland: photo by Jack Delano, May 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

New York, New York. Gypsy woman entertaining on New Years' Eve in an Italian restaurant on Mulberry Street. New York, New York: photo by Marjory Collins, December 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Gypsy girl, on U.S. 13, five miles south of Salisbury, Maryland: photo by Jack Delano, May 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Gypsy children, on U.S. 13, five miles south of Salisbury, Maryland: photo by Jack Delano, May 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



Father of a Gypsy family, living on U.S. 13, five miles south of Salisbury, Maryland. He works as a boiler man in town: photo by Jack Delano, May 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)