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The travelling people (a radio ballad about Britain's nomadic peoples) / Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger

Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: Da 133 | Argo / DeccaPublication details: Argo / Decca, 1968.Description: 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm
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, The y're rogues -- 12. Thy can't read or write -- 13. Bloody isn't -- 14. Can't see no way out.

Sound disc, analog.

Written by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service, 16/8/1960, produced by Parker, Charles.

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, The y're rogues -- 12. Thy can't read or write -- 13. Bloody isn't -- 14. Can't see no way out.

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