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w:I'm a free-born man of the trav-lling peo-ple
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w:- Got no fixed ab-ode, with
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w:no-mads I am num-bered. Coun-try
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w:lanes and by-ways were al-ways my ways
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w:Nev- ver fan-cied be-ing lum-bered
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W:1
W:I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people
W:Got no fixed abode with nomads I am numbered
W:Country lanes and bye ways were always my ways
W:I never fancied being lumbered
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W:2
W:Well we knew the woods and all the resting places
W:The small birds sang when winter time was over
W:Then we'd pack our load and be on the road
W:they were good old times for the rover
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W:3
W:In the open ground where a man could linger
W:Stay a week or two for time was not your master
W:Then away you'd jog with your horse and dog
W:Nice and easy no need to go faster
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W:4
W:And sometimes you'd meet up with other travellers
W:Hear the news or else swop family information
W:At the country fairs we'd be meeting there
W:All the people of the travelling nation
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W:5
W:I've made willow creels and the heather besoms
W:And I've even done some begging and some hawkin'
W:And I've lain there spent rapped up in my tent
W:And I've listened to the old folks talking
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W:6
W:All you freeborn men of the travelling people
W:Every tinker rolling stone and gypsy rover
W:Winds of change are blowing old ways are going
W:Your travelling days will soon be over