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The Roving Gypsy/ Gypsy Harris' Tune

from Goshawk by Carole Pegg & Radik Tülüsh

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I learned both the song and tune from Suffolk traditional fiddler and singer Fred 'Pip' Whiting. Fred learnt the song from Gypsy Billy Barham, who camped next to the Kenton Crown pub close to where he lived, and the tune from Gypsy Billy Harris of Charsfield, who used to sit on the steps of his caravan playing the fiddle. English Gypsies share with Tuvans respect for horses, symbolised by the horse-head fiddle played here, and love of moving freely with their homes.

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I was born on the road when me mother was hawking pegs,
And I’ve been a roving Gypsy since I learnt to use me legs,
All I ask for is to wander and to let the world go by,
And I’ll be a roving Gypsy now until the day I die.

Chorus: Just give me the open road and I’ll travel to the end,
Let me wander round the corner, let me travel round the bend,
With me wagon and me horses, me fiddle and me wife,
I’ll be a roving Gypsy now ‘til I wear out me life.

They tell me I should change my ways and learn to settle down,
They would root me in a factory, they would cage me in a town,
Let me live in open country, let me see a starry sky,
And I’ll be a roving Gypsy now until the day I die.

I can catch meself a rabbit, I can catch meself a hare,
And a partridge or a pheasant, I can find them anywhere,
Oh, the way I gets me livin’ the city never understands,
For no matter where I wander, I can still live off the land.

A wild rabbit he is never tamed, he’s born to wander free,
And, like a soaring seagull, he’s a rover same as me,
Oh life to them is freedom, just the same as I,
And I’ll be a roving Gypsy now until the day I die.

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from Goshawk, track released June 7, 2014
Trad: Song, Melody & Tune
Carole Pegg: vocal, fiddle
Radik Tülüsh: Tuvan igil fiddle, shoor flute, sygyt throat-singing
Richard Partridge: viola

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Carole Pegg was lead singer and fiddler with pioneering folk-rock band Mr Fox with an acclaimed solo singer-songwriter album Carolanne Pegg. Radik Tülüsh, was the former wild fiddler with Tuvan band Yat-kha. He is currently a member of Tuvan band Huun-Huur-Tu and has made two solo albums. ... more

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