Irish Songs With Easy Chords & Lyrics
Johnny Connors
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My | name is Johnny | Connors, | I am a travelling | man |
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My | people have been | travelling since time it first be | gan |
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With | my horse and covered | wagon And my | family by my | side |
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Grazing the long | acre,I travelled far and | wide |
I met Bridie Maughan my sweet wife On a fair day in Rathkeale
She was the finest travelling girl that ever wore a shawl.
We worked the tin around Galway On up to Ballinasloe
For a traveller with a horse to sell It was the place to go
We sold the old linoleum, swapped carpets for old pine
But as the years passed on, the travelling life Got harder all the time.
Where have all the halting places gone All them friendly doors
Where we'd haul spring water from the well And sell paper flowers
Now its guards and jailers and JCB's To roll big boulders in
Temporary dwellings are prohibited Innocent little travelling children
Lost out on them streets
Sons and daughters on the wine and lying 'round me feet
As they try to dull the hurt and pain The rejection that's imposed
Travellers are not wanted here But there's no place left to go.
My name is Johnny Connors I am a travelling man
I've taken everything that's been thrown at me,Now I'm going to take a stand.
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