The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #96122 Message #2318944
Posted By: quokka
17-Apr-08 - 11:55 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Tramps and Hawkers
Subject: RE: tramps and hawkers
the version I have from the Battlefield Band has two extra verses that don't appear on the DT version. The first is at the beginning of the song:
I dreamed a dream the other night, a dream of long ago I saw yen o' the travelling folk, along the open road His step was light, his head held high tae catch the scent o' spring and his voice rang roun' the countryside, and he began tae sing
Then the song continues more or less like the DT version, but at the end there is this verse:
When I'd awoken from my dream, the dawn song had begun The birds sang out their old old song, to greet the rising sun I lay along the shadows and I thought of days long gone And those wand'ring tramps and hawkin' lads Whose days are surely done