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The travelling people : a radio-ballad about Britain's nomadic peoples / by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: TSCD 808 | Topic RecordsPublication details: Topic Records, 1999.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Contents:
1. My mother said I never should -- 2. I am tired of always having to shift -- 3. Born in the middle of the afternoon -- 4. If you took a traveller -- 5. Don't I wish the old times would come back again -- 6. I like to settle in the wintertime -- 7. We never did travel much in the wintertime -- 8. The auld ways are changing -- 9. These days have gone -- 10. I mean, we're fed up with gypsies living in our area -- 11. People get the impression, o these gypsies, they're rogues -- 12. Thy can't read or write -- 13. Bloody isn't -- 14. Can't see no way out.

Compact disc.

Written by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger. First released by Argo (Decca) in 1968. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service, 16/8/1960, produced by Charles Parker.

Musical instruments: oboe, piccolo, flute, alto sax, clarinet, concertina, harmonica, double-bass, fiddle, guitar, banjo.

1. My mother said I never should -- 2. I am tired of always having to shift -- 3. Born in the middle of the afternoon -- 4. If you took a traveller -- 5. Don't I wish the old times would come back again -- 6. I like to settle in the wintertime -- 7. We never did travel much in the wintertime -- 8. The auld ways are changing -- 9. These days have gone -- 10. I mean, we're fed up with gypsies living in our area -- 11. People get the impression, o these gypsies, they're rogues -- 12. Thy can't read or write -- 13. Bloody isn't -- 14. Can't see no way out.

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