Lyr/Chords Req: Travelling People (Ewan MacColl)

Subject: The Travelling People - Ewan McColl
From: GUEST,JJ
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 04:09 PM

Can anyone help with the lyrics and guitar chords for this song, please?

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: Wolfgang
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 04:25 PM

lyrics and midi are here

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: Brían
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 04:26 PM

could it be this?

Brían.

Subject: Chords Add: THE TRAVELLING PEOPLE (Ewan MacColl)
From: IvanB
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 06:39 PM

Here they are as sung by the Clancy's with Cherish the Ladies on a recent CD(the words are slightly different from the DT and there are two different tune patterns, I'll leave it to you to figure out which fits with the rest of the verses):

  A                         D             E
  I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people
                                        D  A
  Got no fixed abode with nomads I have wandered. 
          E           A                D  A
  Country lanes and byways were always my way. 
    D     A       D     G  A
  I never fancied being numbered.

   A                            D          E
  Oh we knew the woods and the resting places,
          E                                      D A
  And the small birds sang when winter days were o-ver, 
            E                    A      D
  Then we'd pack our load and be on the road 
  A          D        A    D     G A
  Those were good old days for a rover. 
  

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: Brían
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 07:19 PM

Shucks, beat again........

Brían.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: Fiolar
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 09:13 AM

The best version is probably by The Dubliners.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: GeorgeH
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 12:01 PM

Dubliners - pah! Not a patch on MacColl himself . .

(This is yet another Radio Ballad song, isn't it?)

G.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: IanC
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 12:17 PM

Yes, George. It's called "Freeborn Man" on "The Travelling People". Nice review at MusTrad here.

I agree with you about the original being better than The Dubliners' version. Personally, I think The Dubliners murdered it (though perhaps not so badly as the genocide they've done on other songs like "Threescore and Ten")

Cheers!
Ian

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: GUEST,JJ
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 06:19 PM

Thanks to everyone for help on this - I am now content!