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Travelling for a Living

from Lammas Fair by Henry Parker

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lyrics

Well the ground it is cold now
The harvest is done
We’ll move with the seasons
Rise with the sun
And we’ll walk to the town
For to see out the year
We’ll starve in the lanes
If we try to stay here

With our scythes we cut wheat
In the cruel August sun
We moved on to crops when
The scything was done
And we dug in your ground
For the root crops and leeks
Breaking our backs boys
For ten bob a week

We’ll toil the next year
Just the same as before
Though travelling people
We always stay poor
And we’re welcome to camp
When there’s jobs to be done
But when the work’s over
It’s get up move along

It’s the same for all those
Who have left their own lands
Travelled to work here
Offered their hands
Though the skills they are needed
There’s those who complain
It’s a deep rooted illness
A national shame

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from Lammas Fair, released November 5, 2021
Performed by: Henry Parker, Richard Curran
Written by: Henry Parker
Produced by: Kurt Wood

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Henry Parker Leeds, UK

Henry Parker's contemporary take on folk, which he explores via thoughtful yet deeply accomplished guitar playing, unfurls and moves much like the landscape itself - mirroring the unpredictable, yet beautifully flowing, rolling hills and valleys of his hometown, the Aire Valley in West Yorkshire.

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