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Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (La Da Dee La Da Da) - Radio Edit

2007Released
3:37

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Interesting facts and trivia about Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (La Da Dee La Da Da) - Radio Edit. By Songfacts®.

Most dance songs take place in the club or some other place of revelry, but this song is set on a city street, where a homeless woman in full makeup is singing for money. It's about a real person. In a Songfacts interview with Crystal Waters, she told the story: "I was in Washington, D.C. and she used to stand in front of the Mayflower Hotel on Connecticut Avenue. She was dressed all in black and a full face of makeup, singing gospel songs, and I used to walk by her like once a week. I'd be like, 'There's nothing wrong with her, she needs to go get a job.' I had a really bad attitude about her. And then the local city paper did an article on her and she said she had just lost her job in retail and she feels like if she was going to ask someone for money she could at least be presentable and look presentable. The story changed my whole attitude about homelessness, how it could have been anybody. Last week she had a job, this week she didn't. She was just like you and me - like what I said in the song. So, that whole incident really changed my attitude about homelessness and that's what I wrote the song about."

The song has a wordless chorus, repeating "la da dee, la da da" over and over. There was a practical reason for this: When Waters came up with the vocal melody, the syllables were too short to use actual words. This section represents what the gypsy woman is singing.

There is no mention of gypsies in this song, but there was originally, which is why the song got titled "Gypsy Woman." When it was first released, it was labelled "Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee La Da Da)" or "Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee)" depending on the country. The song's message seemed to be getting lost, so it was re-titled "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" on later pressings, which became the song's official title. Speaking of gypsies, they're kind of hard to classify as an ethnicity, per se. They are originally from India, but wandered up into all of Europe. Nomadic by tradition, they settled into various pockets of culture and are variously called Roma, Romani, Sinta, Kale, and Bohemians. The name comes from the mistaken belief that they were from Egypt.

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120BPM

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