Lyr/Chords Req: Travelling People (Ewan MacColl)

01 Aug 01 - 04:09 PM (#519293)
Subject: The Travelling People - Ewan McColl
From: GUEST,JJ

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

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01 Aug 01 - 04:25 PM (#519306)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: Wolfgang

lyrics and midi are here

Wolfgang

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01 Aug 01 - 04:26 PM (#519307)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: Brían

could it be this?

Brían.

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01 Aug 01 - 06:39 PM (#519371)
Subject: Chords Add: THE TRAVELLING PEOPLE (Ewan MacColl)
From: IvanB

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. 
  

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01 Aug 01 - 07:19 PM (#519391)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: Brían

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

Brían.

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02 Aug 01 - 09:13 AM (#519618)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: Fiolar

The best version is probably by The Dubliners.

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02 Aug 01 - 12:01 PM (#519742)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: GeorgeH

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

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

G.

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02 Aug 01 - 12:17 PM (#519753)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: IanC

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

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02 Aug 01 - 06:19 PM (#519999)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Travelling People - Ewan
From: GUEST,JJ

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

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