tscd808
tscd808 travelling people

A radio-ballad about Britain's nomadic peoples
by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger

THE TRAVELLING PEOPLE VARIOUS ARTISTS TSCD808
1 My mother said I never should... 1.35
2 I am tired of always having to shift ... 1.25
3 Born in the middle of the afternoon ... 7.29
4 If you took a traveller... 4.01
5 Don't I wish the old times would come back again... 10.14
6 I like to settle in the wintertime... 5.02
7 We never did travel much in the wintertime... 2.24
8 The auld ways are changing... 3.17
9 These days have gone... 1.11
10 I mean, we're fed up with gypsies living in our area... 3.18
11 People get the impression, o these gypsies, they're rogues... 3.18
12 Thy can't read or write ... 4.02
13 Bloody isn't it... 7.39
14 Can't see no way out... 3.31

Script, song lyrics and music: Ewan MacColl (with Peggy Seeger)
Orchestration and musical direction: Peggy Seeger
Actuality recording: Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
Production: Charles Parker

Singers: John Faulkner, Joe Heaney, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Belle Stewart, Jane Stewart

Instrumentalists:
Jim Bray double bass
Brian Daly guitar
Dinah Demuth oboe
Alf Edwards English concertina
Alfie Kahn harmonica, clarinet, piccolo, flute
Peggy Seeger guitar, 5-string banjo
Dave Swarbrick fiddle
Bruce Turner
clarinet, alto sax