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Title
The travelling people
Other Titles (e.g. Variant)
Radio-ballad about Britain's nomadic peoples
Type
MusicAudio
Monograph
Subject
Romanies--Songs and music (LCSH)
Radio programs--Great Britain (LCSH)
Interviews--Great Britain (LCSH)
Ballads, English (LCSH)
Language
English
Geographic Coverage
Classification
LCC: SDD 55586 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 781.62 full
Summary
The last of eight radio-ballads created by Ewan MacColl between 1957-1964. The creators travelled extensively in England and Scotland, recording over 300 hours of talking to gypsies and tinkers about "what it means to be a tenth-rate citizen in a civilised land" --Program notes.
Table Of Contents
My mother said I never should
I am tired of always having to shift
Born in the middle of the afternoon
If you took a traveller
Don't I wish the old times would come back again
I like to settle in the wintertime
We never did travel much in the wintertime
The auld ways are changing
These days have gone
I mean, we're fed up with gypsies living in our area
People get the impression, o these gypsies, they're rogues
Thy can't read or write
Bloody isn't it
Can't see no way out.
Authorized Access Point
MacColl, Ewan The travelling people