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1956
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger
The Travelling People
1999
Topic
TSCD 808
CD
Tracks:
1. My Mother Said I Never Should...
2. I Am Tired Of Always Having To Shift...
3. Born In The Middle Of The Afternoon...
4. If You Took A Traveller...
5. Don't I Wish The Old Times Would Come Back Again...
6. I Like To Settle In The Wintertime...
7. We Never Did Travel Much In The Wintertime...
8. The Auld Ways Are Changing...
9. These Days Have Gone...
10. I Mean, We're Fed Up With Gypsies Living In Our Area...
11. People Get The Impression, O These Gypsies, They're Rogues...
12. Thy Can't Read Or Write...
13. Bloody Isn't It...
14. Can't See No Way Out...
Personnel:
Singers: John Faulkner, Joe Heaney, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Belle Stewart, Jane Stewart
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
Bruce Turner: clarinet, alto sax

A radio-ballad (no.8) about Britain's nomadic people
Related recordings:
The Ballad Of John Axon (Topic TSCD 801)
Song Of A Road (Topic TSCD 802)
Singing The Fishing (Topic TSCD 803)
The Big Hewer (Topic TSCD 804)
The Body Blow (Topic TSCD 805)
On The Edge (Topic TSCD 806)
The Fight Game (Topic TSCD 807)
The Travelling People (Argo DA 133)
Available from Topic Records