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[00:01.23]The Travelling People (1993 Digital Remaster) - The Dubliners
[00:07.97]I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people
[00:16.89]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
[00:39.31]Well we knew the woods and all the resting places
[00:47.80]And the small birds sang when winter time was over
[00:55.40]Then we'd pack our load and be on the road
[01:01.84]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
[01:31.69]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
[01:54.89]At the country fairs we'd be meeting there
[02:01.31]All the people of the travelling nation
[02:08.72]I've made willow creels and the heather besoms
[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
[02:30.85]And I've listened to the old folks talking
[02:38.27]All you freeborn men of the travelling people
[02:46.58]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
[03:08.64]I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people
[03:16.98]Got no fixed abode with nomads I am numbered
[03:24.45]Country lanes and bye ways were always my ways
[03:32.08]I never fancied being lumbered