Uriah Heep

I was only seventeen,
I fell in love with a gypsy queen.
She told me - hold on!
Her father was the leading man,
said You're not welcome on our land.
and then as a foe, he told me to go.
He took me to a little shack
and put a whip across my back
then told her - leave me.
I was out for quite a time,