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Lyr Req: Harvest Gypsies (Boo Hewerdine)

05 Apr 08 - 02:24 PM (#2307632)
Subject: Lyr Req: Harvest Gypsies
From: MickT

Anyone got the lyrics to Boo Hewerdines song Harvest Gypsies (which Kris Drever also sang)?


05 Apr 08 - 02:33 PM (#2307648)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Gypsies
From: Peace

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05 Apr 08 - 02:52 PM (#2307664)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Gypsies
From: Peace

It's on YOUTUBE


05 Apr 08 - 03:00 PM (#2307670)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Gypsies
From: Peace

It's not loading worth a darn through that link.

Go yo Youtube and in the search box type in The Harvest Gypsies.

That will take you there--I think it's the second one on the list. It's done by Hewerdine (sp?).


06 Apr 08 - 10:07 AM (#2308219)
Subject: Lyr Req: Harvest Gypsies
From: MickT

I've been to the YouTube site but I can't make out some of the words. Anyway here's my best shot:-


In October we will come
One hundred and fifty thousand strong
When the pickings over we'll be gone
They call us the harvest gypsies

We only come because we must
We are driven here by dust
When they won't even look at us
They call us the harvest gypsies

The harvest's hard it's ever been
I sold my blankets for gasoline
It's only hunger I have seen
And now I'm a harvest gypsy

There's apricots in Santa Clare
In Carrot County they have apples there
And the grapes they're growing everywhere
All for the harvest gypsies

In Walnut Grove I met a man
Who lost a child before San Fran
We're strangers they don't understand
We are the harvest gypsies

The gondolas and railway lines
Filled with men when it is time
Drawn by the orange and the lime
For the harvest gypsies

They hate it when our taxes rise
The squatter camps that they despise
Without us they would rot and die
Without the harvest gypsies

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And I dream one day we will again
To miss the soul's a curious thing
When you're a harvest gypsy


07 Apr 08 - 11:45 PM (#2309749)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Gypsies
From: Jim Dixon

Here are my guesses:

Verse 3 Line 1: And the hardest that it's ever been

Verse 4 Line 2 [doubtful]: Current County they have apples there

Verse 6 Line 4: All the harvest gypsies

Verse 8 Line 1 [highly doubtful]: (And the)/into whole/home groups we were farming/forming then

Verse 8 Line 3: To miss the soil's a curious thing


18 May 08 - 03:54 PM (#2343794)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Harvest Gypsies (Boo Hewerdine)
From: GUEST,Jack B. Burness

VERSE 4 Kern County (in California)


VERSE 5 In a walnut grove I met a man

Verse 6 Fill with men when it is time

Verse 7 They hate it when their taxes rise

Verse 8 The Holbrooks, we were farming men (Family Name)