The Travelling People-The Dubliners

[ti:The Travelling People] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:A Drop Of The Hard Stuff] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Travelling People - The Dubliners [00:07.96]I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people [00:16.88]Got no fixed abode with nomads I am numbered [00:24.23]Country lanes and bye ways were always my ways [00:32.09]I never fancied being lumbered [00:38.59] [00:39.31]Well we knew the woods and all the resting places [00:47.79]And the small birds sang when winter time was over [00:55.39]Then we'd pack our load and be on the road [01:01.83]They were good old times for the rover [01:09.33]In the open ground you could stop linger [01:17.66]For a week or two for time was not your master [01:25.15]Then away you'd jog with your horse and dog [01:31.68]Nice and easy no need to go faster [01:39.20]And sometimes you'd meet up with other people [01:47.41]Hear the news or else swop family information [01:53.75] [01:54.89]At the country fairs we'd be meeting there [02:01.30]All the people of the travelling nation [02:08.71]I've made willow creels and the heather besoms [02:16.11] [02:17.01]And I've even done some begging and some hawking [02:24.37]And I've lain there spent rapped up in my tent [02:29.94] [02:30.85]And I've listened to the old folks talking [02:37.39] [02:38.27]All you freeborn men of the travelling people [02:46.57]Every tinker rolling stone and gypsy rover [02:53.86]Winds of change are blowing old ways are going [03:01.72]Your travelling days will soon be over [03:07.67] [03:08.63]I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people [03:16.97]Got no fixed abode with nomads I am numbered [03:24.44]Country lanes and bye ways were always my ways [03:32.08]I never fancied being lumbered