There is another version doing the rounds: I’m a Romany Rai, I’m a true didikai I travel the drom with me dogs and me grai I’ll never be rich, I was born in a ditch And that’s why they call me the Romany Rai Chorus Dika chavi, dik akai Kaka chavi dik akai Daddy’s trying to sell the mush a kushti grai Dika chavi dik akai, kaka chavi, dik akai That’s why they call me the Romany Rai I’m a Romany Rom, and I travel the drom, I make wicker creels, on the bosh play the reels I’ll sing you a sing before the gavvers move me on And that’s why they call me the Romany Rai I’m a Romany Rom and I travel the drom I hawk all the day and dance all the night I don’t pay no rent,’cos I live in a tent And that’s why they call me the Romany Rai It has been recorded by Pat and Susie Darling. Not sure if they wrote some of it. Tradsinger
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