Thread #100219   Message #4198242
Posted By: Joe Offer
28-Feb-24 - 05:55 PM
Thread Name: Did the Pecker - Tinker's Lullaby
Subject: ADD: Tinker's Lullaby (Pecker Dunne)

TINKER'S LULLABY
(Pecker Dunne)

Go to sleep my little tinker
Let all your troubles pass you by
For you have no place to camp now
Oh that’s a tinker's lullaby.

Ever since you were a baby
Cradled in your mother's shawl
Society said they did not want you
And now you have no home at all

When your mother died and left you
You had to fend all alone
All in this land of saints and scholars
And still you have not got a home.

Although your clothes are torn and ragged
And your hair is silvery grey
Someday you'll die and go to heaven
And you will find a campground there.

Oh, Go to sleep my little tinker
Let all your troubles pass you by
For you have no place to camp now
Oh that's a tinker's lullaby.

Lyrics from https://cllrmannixflynn.blog/tag/irish-traveller-culture/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPyxiLppBj8