Ewan MacColl's MOVING ON SONG is one I like - from the radio ballads. Easy to play, too. Seems to be know as Go Move Shift when anybody else does it. Am Born in the middle of the afternoon D G Am In a horsedrawn carriage on the old A5 Am The big twelve wheeler shook my bed, D Am D Em "You can't stay here" the policeman said. CHORUS Am G D Em You'd better get born in some place else. Am Em Am Em So move along, get along, Move along, get along, F G Am Go! Move! Shift! Born in the tatie lifting time In an old bell tent in a tatie field. The farmer said, "The work's all done It's time that you was moving on." CHORUS Born on a common near a building site Where is ground was rutted by the trailers wheels The local people said to me, "You'll lower the price of property." CHORUS Born at the back of a blackthorn hedge Where the white hoarfrost lay all around. No eastern kings came bearing gifts. Instead the order came to shift. CHORUS The winter sky was hung with stars And one shone brighter than the rest The wise men came so stern and strict And brought the orders to evict CHORUS Wagon, tent or trailer born, Last year last month or in far off days. Born here or a thousand miles away There's always men nearby who'll say CHORUS
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