Dubliners, The - Thirty Foot Trailer Lyrics

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What a a great 👍 to have come out of Ireland 🇮🇪 LUKE KELLY 👍

Song was written in Scotland about Scottish travellers, sung by luke kelly, 👌

With out doubt a marvelous and historical song sung by Luke!

Traveller and proud

Brave singer and speccial, lovely Luke. We miss you and Love you forever,.😙👍💖🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

Songs about gypsys the best 👊✊😎

These are great songs for all to sing but Luke just makes them that song a wee bit special

amhran go hiontach ! ...a cracking song and typical of the dubs and Luke keeping these song alive and not forgotten ; only Dubliners could pull that one off ....and they've left us with a legacy to live with ! xxx Dia do Beatha  an. Baille Atha Cliaith ! xxx

i wish the heart still echoed freedom

Jesus christ what a beautiful song !

Love this song ❤I really do all singers are great but there's nothing like irish singers x

I am pround to be a tinker up the tinkers

My dad.loves.this.song

It is cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so kures mi mukar manges

The law say lots of good some say lots of bad fair play to Irish travellers

fuck the times

this song makes me sick it should not be goodby

Proud to be a tinker

I'm a traveller a mongan yup I love who I am

Travellers of the bygone era were really nice people from what i hear. The travellers of today are not this way at all unfortunately

The traveler isn't dead. His spirit lives on in every wayward child that calls himself home.

i cant help but listen to this song because its unfortunetly true but not nice to hear :(

I'm a traveller myself and its a shame most of us are settling because in most people's eyes where always going to be dirty knackers

Patrick odonnell,,,, Don't worry about the gogios who Don't like you, and think we piss them off more than they piss us off,,

wullie mcphee too true😢

What's all this goodbye talk?....we are still here

i am a travler please love me

Juliet Maglangit no you are not

I am a traveler as well

I'm a Collins a few generations removed from the maigh oh clan. But back to living in trailer

good and bad in every people

well said

rest in peace lukie

So sad... this song basically predicted what life is like now for the traveling community which is a pity and a real shame because travelers are A HUGE part of Irish history and now society wants to force their cultural way of life out when they have every right to live how they like. But they are vehemetley hated and discriminated against... yet Ireland lets in all sorts of people and even build moscs for other people of different religions and cultures. But wont tolerate their own people.

Gall Goidel You are real big on here ,but the next time that they set up go and tell them to leave , I bet you don't ,,

+Dumnezeu să binecuvânteze copiii Thx for a well stated history and current events plaguing Ireland & the West. They, the West, are blind to what they are inviting in. Well, not so much blind as willfully ignorant. Where's our modern Charles Martel when we need him? He did the job needing done in 732 AD.
It needs doing again . . . !

Where I am I see roaming Vietnamese harvesting, and fishing as a way of life on the east coast. They are good people. Just good people, and I'm proud to know them.

I have friends in Hungary who are Roma / Gypsies and they are very good people. They are disadvantaged by history, by discrimination and by the vicious cycle of poverty and lack of education and opportunities. But they are also fiercely proud of their culture but if you treat them with respect and friendliness that is also what you get back. I've been in many of their houses and eaten with them and they were always friendly and generous despite having little to give. But of course for people who treat them badly they will gave back similarly. Same as anybody else basically.

theres a by law to say you must be on your way, and another to say you cant wander :'(

iam an o connor ,why are all o connor tinkers called connors did ye all ta

Thomas t im a connor bourke me great grandparents on mams side are travellers I was born in a house tho but im a travelling man never lost the need to be on the road

love this song reminds me of my mam and dad

Jason Gentle great song

love the songs lovely to hear of the old days me dad told me about God bless him

Sure as ye man himself was born in a trailer, them gobshites at the inn Wundt let them in.!!

I love it when listeners add information and background. I recently discovered Luke Kelly (and Liam and the others) and am hooked.

I love this song, and I think it tells a tragic truth. But, there is also a good side to these changes. I am Romani, and the reason we are nomadic is because we are subject to racism and persecution. We are not so much travelling, as fleeing. It's nice that we can begin to settle down now. There is still a lot of racism, but, it's getting better. Of course, The Dubliners might've mainly referred to the Irish Travellers, and that's a different story.

The song was written by Ewan McColl for the radio documentary "The Travelling People" and is about the Romani,

Romani were at one point a standard, and all cultures have a suitable analogy. To roam in wanderlust is in the human spirit. Its how we colonised continents unknown to cartography, and staked unique claims in unknown wilderness.

Whether we want to set sail and discover a new island, or invent the next innovation...we all want to be part of that undiscovered country, because that is where we call home.

In my culture we were called travelers, yours Romani, and others stalchild or vagabond...

goes way back to the caste system of India when roma were untouchables

The mugger it was a whole society that left India and only when we came to Europe that we were all chucked in the same wise people told me that and they were scholars they said that we left because our enemies used terrorism and we knew not how to fight it so they our people left and they could read and write only in Sanskrit and that wasn’t good enough for the Europeans and that is what I was taught

I'm a romany I have witnessed the abuse and getting moved on constantly

Sadly the simple things in life have gone.

All have to be registered,plasticised,well dare anyone be individual and different,alas i've fallen foul of this in Europe.!

Jury butcher

If my love wisent here with me to day

For all those who were arguing, this song is by Ewan MacColl, a Northern English folk singer, Dirty old town also being one of his.

You will find folk singers from all over the British isles sing folk songs from all over the Isles.

Bashyboyash although Ewan sings it in a Scottish/ English dialect, I agree great song.

Fantastic song loves it xxx

Stop whittleing if the song is english , scottish , or iresh , what does it matter its the contents of the song that matters and it applies to all travelers, so sit and listen to it and remember its right

It's probably Welsh.

@jannyrcobs It was written by Ewan Maccoll

What a shame to be towed away with tractor

Travelling people are our ancient people with our values God bliss them

I hate paying taxes you hate paying taxes we dont if we can get out of it, you do, dont get at us have a go at those in the city and big business they really can dodge taxes, we may not travel much now but they cant get rid of us,and we aint going to change,

The old ways never go away. They are a part of who we are as a species. Those lacking tradition typically lack the breadth of a life lived well. Money and commerce contribute, but your culture lives within you.

The last verse.. #TRUTH

In any event, I've read a lot about and experienced first hand Romes; Romany or Gypsies. I've found them polite and sharing of their historical information. An raith tu ag an carraig?

Charlie Glasheen a god song Irish

95% of gorja folkie think itish travelrs r gypsys but they are irish pavee i agreei like the northern tunes like wot gordon boswell had made romany yog..check out yellow on the broom if u avnt allready Chusti Divvus

What you tryna speak. IRISH, shēlta, romani or gibberish?

Ok ,what about English people takig part of a country and claiming its theirs ,would that even things up in your eyes ,yeah,,,,No i didnt think so

Who cares ,its an Irish man singing it ,like no other man can so just enjoy it because its feking good and I love it ,i tink its first class and do's tell of the old ways that really arent that old to some of us lol ,but its lovely to reminice of the days gone by of the old Travellers selling their wares in town and village all over the country and beyond so just tink of it as little bit off our past .

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I can confirm this is not an Irish song, it bacame an intarnational Romani Hymn and Romany people over the world love and sing it in different languages and even in the romany language and sings the melody with christian lyrics, and knows it is about scottish gipsies wich are heavilly related in both blood and tongue and culture with us the romani people inn scandinavia.

Rickhard Hartmann u

Not really Scottish travellers are not romanichal

sorry it shud have begun with SAD, not sas !

sas sometimes my grandad had great friend who was a traveller, he was a true blue he used to tie his pybold horse in the yard god that's a long time ago some of them are great espically the older ones.

Love this song. My dad was given a tape by a gypsy with this on. Brings back many memories

good wee sang its my life

correct,sang this song for a traveller in a dundee boozer.he laughed said it wasnt about travellers as the verse about bye laws really related to english romanies.dirty old town is written about salford,outside manchester.scottish travellers arent irish either although there are irish travellers up there.the scottish travellers are called "summer walkers" and were big into pearl fishing in rivers etc.irish travellers are also renowned exponents of road bowling and kept it going in west limerick.

@50077756 indeed i think you comments are based on ignorance...im a traveler and we pay our taxes, you will find that most tax evaders are whit collar workers, perhaps if you had a tad more education you would be able to converse with the commentators on here , sad for you.

@50077756 indeed i think you comments are based on ignorance...im a traveler and we pay our taxes, you will find that most tax evaders are whit collar workers, perhaps if you had a tad more education you would be able to converse with the commentators on here , sad for you .

i remember me Da telling me bout back in Ardoyne Belfast stealing the Gypsys horses and riding through the town at 3am.. and also stealin the old push start guarda motorbikes in the late 50`s early 60`s. i came around in 1980 then we moved to Australia in 1990 cos i was umm yeahh getting pulled up all the time

true song.

i heard a tinker singing opera lately, brilliant, the next pavee rotty

I visited Eire in 1970 and I remember seeing a Tinker campsite, complete with tent etc. Can anyone please let me know if there are any Tinkers in Ireland today that lead that kind of life anymore, or have they all settled in housing projects? OIn this song, the singer mentions..."there Romani speaking". Does anyone know if the Tinkers indeed spoke the Romani lanuage? That would be very interesting as it seems to conect the Tinkers with the Gypsies of eastern europe.

love the way that he wraps the song up...
one rule to say yuo must be on your way, and another to say you can't wander ..... :( brings a tear to the eye

An amazing amazing song.

Thanks very much for putting it up!

you wouldnt go up to a halting site an say that. i hate people like you .. yours so brave on the internet .. hard man you are