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MickT Lyr Req: Harvest Gypsies (Boo Hewerdine) (7) Lyr Req: Harvest Gypsies 06 Apr 08


I've been to the YouTube site but I can't make out some of the words. Anyway here's my best shot:-


In October we will come
One hundred and fifty thousand strong
When the pickings over we'll be gone
They call us the harvest gypsies

We only come because we must
We are driven here by dust
When they won't even look at us
They call us the harvest gypsies

The harvest's hard it's ever been
I sold my blankets for gasoline
It's only hunger I have seen
And now I'm a harvest gypsy

There's apricots in Santa Clare
In Carrot County they have apples there
And the grapes they're growing everywhere
All for the harvest gypsies

In Walnut Grove I met a man
Who lost a child before San Fran
We're strangers they don't understand
We are the harvest gypsies

The gondolas and railway lines
Filled with men when it is time
Drawn by the orange and the lime
For the harvest gypsies

They hate it when our taxes rise
The squatter camps that they despise
Without us they would rot and die
Without the harvest gypsies

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And I dream one day we will again
To miss the soul's a curious thing
When you're a harvest gypsy


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