MOVING ON SONG

(Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger)



Born in the middle of an afternoon

In a horse-drawn wagon on the old A5

The big twelve wheeler shook my bed

You can't stop here the policeman said

You better get born someplace else



So move along, get along, move along, get along,

Go, move, shift



Born in the tatie lifting time

In an old bow tent in a tatie field

The farmer said, The work's all done

It's time that you were moving on



Born in a wagon on a building site

Where the ground was rutted by the trailer's wheels

The local people said to me,

You'll lower the price of property



Born at the back of a blackthorn hedge

When the white hoarfrost lay all around

No wise men came bearing gifts

Instead the order came to shift



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 order to evict



Wagon, tent, or trailer born

Last week, last year, or in far off days

Born here or a thousand miles away

There's always men nearby who'll say



Copyright Stormking Music, Inc.

from the radio ballad, Traveling People

@gypsy

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