Verse 1:

Silver coins that jingle-jangle

Fancy shoes that dance in time

All the secrets of her dark eyes

The lady'd sing a gypsy rhyme

Yellow clover in tangled blossoms

In a meadow silky green

Where she held me to her bosom

Just a boy of seventeen



CHORUS:

I recall a gypsy woman, silver spangles in her eyes

Ivory skin against the moonlight

And the taste of life's sweet wine



Verse 2:

Soft breezes blow from fragrant meadows

Stir the darkness in my mind

Oh gentle woman, you sleep beside me

And little know who haunts my mind

Gypsy lady, I hear your laughter

And the dances in my head

While my tender wife and babies

Slumber softly in their beds



(chorus)