Don't know the lyrics well enough to type them from memory, but to satisfy my attribution fetish:

The song was written by the Glaswegian songwriter Adam McNaughtan, based on the life story of a woman of the Scottish Travellers (non-Romany gypsies). McNaughtan is a wonderfully prolific writer; his other "big" hit in our East Coast folk circle is an exceedingly clever 3 verse reduction of Hamlet set to "The Mason's Apron", currently being sung by John Roberts and Ed Trickett, among others.