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Readers recommend: songs about itinerants, nomads and migration

Gypsy to Bedouin, mass movements to travelling singers, blues, folk, or rock on the road, suggest songs springing from or inspired by a life of no fixed abode

“M an’s real home is not a house, but the road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot,” said the writer, Bruce Chatwin . His acclaimed 1987 travelogue novel, The Songlines, set about to explore the culture and traditions of Indigenous Australians, and proclaimed that language itself began as song. Songlines, also known as dreaming tracks, map out landmarks (or skylines) in the form of songs, poems or paintings. When these songs are sung in the correct sequence, they can describe, and therefore relive, vast journeys. The book repeatedly portrays the itinerant lifestyle is the most natural human state, and how, for example, it is “calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.”

Chatwin also portrays the culture of the pilgrim, nomad and hunter-gatherer as healthier in every way than that of city dweller, not just for the environment, but “as a general rule of biology, migratory species are less aggressive than sedentary ones”. He quotes the 17th-century writer and polymath, Sir Thomas Browne, who said the “pyramids, arches, obelisks were but the irregularites of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity”, and “when people start talking of man’s inhumanity to man, it means they haven’t walked far enough”. To graze and live and move across the land makes us appreciate and integrate with it than to build, as one songwriter put it, an empire of dirt.

Many a song has been made on the move, and so your choices this week might reference anywhere in the world. from those of ancient Australian tradition, to the Bedouin tribes of the Arabian peninsula, Sudan or the Levant, the Gypsy music of Romania, Bulgaria or Ireland, the Maasai of Kenya, or the tales of Mongol horsemen and Tartar descendents of central Asia. Alternatively you might wish to refer to songs travelling closer to home. Wherever you go, you will always feel accompanied. Readers Recommend will virtually supply a friendly camel to help carry your vinyl collection.

“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it,” says an ancient Indian proverb. If not moving on that particular continent, the bridges you and roads traversed may just as likely bring in blues and folk and any travelling rock or pop. They may even touch on circus culture, or songs inspired by the ever-touring, romantic (or otherwise) life on the road. Musicians are often restless spirits, and many spend much of their lives in hotels are dosing in vehicles. Louden Wainwright III, for example, on his ironically titled album, Fame and Wealth, is pictured holding hundreds of hotel door keys.

Your songs may also be inspired by films or other books. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, about the carefree lifestyle of Beat-generation itinerants, spurred a wealth of material in all genres, and an entirely new youth culture. It was made into a film, but perhaps the best-known offspring of all road movies is Easy Rider (1969) , an early, vehicle for motorbike-riding Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper. Time then, to take a load off, and open up the throttle.

An interesting alternative on the itinerant theme is the 1998 sci-fi Dark City , in which inhabitants of a futuristic dystopia don’t realise they are moving home, but time, memories and physical environment are rearranged every time midnight comes around by evil manipulators known as the Strangers, making citizens unwitting nomads in every facet of their lives. Far more light-hearted, however, is the endlessly energetic Black Cat, White Cat of the same year, by Serbian director Emir Kusturica , a film inspired by and portraying the Gypsy music of Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria. The music is so vibrant that it frees a man from his hospital bed.

Homo sapiens originally began to migrate out of Africa around 250,000 years ago, and some people, as shown above, continue to keep moving. But this topic can also cover mass migrations. We’ve previously had the different topics of homelessness and travelling , but this week it is all about a more long-term choice of lifestyle. History is awash with mass migrations, with the movement from east to west America, or from the south the the north, likely to be the biggest, especially in the world of popular song. But mass migration happens constantly on an even more enormous scale in the natural world.

The furthest travelling itinerant of all is the Arctic tern - it will annually fly 44,000 miles in a zigzagging journey between Greenland and Antarctica. White sharks, meanwhile are constantly on the move - roughly 6,000 miles a year across the North Pacific. Caribou may hold the land record - a brutal 3,700 miles from the forests to tundra of Canada. But the wildebeest crossing Tanzania’s Serengeti plains take a punishing circular route of around 1,800 miles to follow changing rain patterns and green grasses, braving everything from marauding leopards to wild dogs and snapping crocodiles as they cross Kenya’s Mara River. You may also be inspired by the upstream epic adventures of salmon, the journey of sperm whales, Mali’s circulating elephants, the relentless sideways creep of Christmas Island red crabs, or perhaps most spectacular of all, the millions of Monarch butterflies who migrate as far as 2,500 miles every year to Mexico. Now that truly is inspiring.

Feeling well travelled? Now it’s time to share your own nomadic adventures in the form of songs. This week’s travel agent is returning special guru suzi , who on return from her own journey this week, will present a very much on-the-move list next Thursday 16 April . Please put your nominations in comments by 11pm UK time (BST) this coming Monday 13 April . No time for standing still …

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Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves by Cher

• I was born in the wagon of a travellin' show My Mama used to dance for The money they'd throw Papa would do whatever he could Preach a little gospel Sell a couple bottles of doctor good Gypsys, tramps and thieves We'd hear it from the people of the town They'd call us gypsies, tramps and thieves But every night all the men would come around And lay their money down Picked up a boy just south of Mobile Gave him a ride, filled him with a hot meal I was sixteen, he was twenty-one Rode with us to Memphis And Papa would'a shot him if He knew what he'd done Gypsys, tramps and thieves We'd hear it from the people of the town They'd call us gypsies, tramps and thieves But every night all the men would come around And lay their money down I never had schoolin' but he taught me well With his smooth southern style Three months later I'm a gal in trouble And I haven't seen him for a while, oh I haven't seen him for a while, oh She was born in the wagon of a travelin' show Her Mama had to dance for The money they'd throw Grandpa'd do whatever he could Preach a little gospel Sell a couple bottles of doctor good Gypsys, tramps and thieves We'd hear it from the people of the town They'd call us gypsies, tramps and thieves But every night all the men would come around And lay their money down Gypsys, tramps and thieves We'd hear it from the people of the town They'd call us gypsies, tramps and thieves But every night all the men would come around And lay their money down Writer/s: Bob Stone Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind
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• Sebastian from Uk Ironic the name of the lyricist is Stone because (an maybe even Cher didn't know this) but "Dr Good" was a euphemism, a hundred years or so ago, for heroin (sometimes morphine and sometimes cocaine). Quack doctors would sell bottles of the stuff, pretending it was a cough linctus, buyers would get hooked and become lifelong customers (whether or not they lived very long is another matter, but at least they died happy). The men coming around and laying their money down was for whatever narcotic the Quack was peddling on any given occasion.
• Susan from Atlanta, Georgia I've always liked this song. I think the people CALLING them gypsies (NOT GYPSYS like the title of the song misspells it), tramps and thieves is the whole point, Showgirlmimi -- the people in the towns will partake of their entertainment, but then put them down for what they do. I'm sorry your family has received such putdowns, but I'm glad tramps was not a label you've had to endure.
• [email protected] from Uk I have always loved this song and wondered how it come about to be written. My mother and her mother and her mother before her were born in wagons of travelling shows in the UK. However I want to point out they were certainly not prostitutes. They were travelling bioscope, menagerie, equestrian etc. Over years the travelling shows were replaced by fairground rides. Laying the money down. Well to me this puts me in mind of my great great grandfather and his brother and indeed many other showmen who gambled heavily. In fact travelling shows were lost and won in gambling games. My family are travelling show people, not in fact gypsies. However we do know what it is like to be called gypsies and thieves. Must say were never labeled tramps though.
• Patrick from Bremen, Ga I agree with KAT. Karen, you're right as well. More than likely the "dancing" was more along the lines of strip-dancing, and the mother (and later the narrator) were both prostitutes, along with many of the other women in the "traveling show". Another possibility of this song: The gypsies, tramps and thieves are running a traveling show. I'm thinking along the lines of a carnival or fair. Don't know if they're common in other regions, but here in the South (where the song does take place...Mobile, Memphis), we have small amusement parks that are set up in large parking lots, usually in a mall parking lot or in a shopping center parking lot. The carnival/fair/amusement park takes up maybe no more than half an acre, or maybe about 100 parking spaces (in a lot of over 1,000 spaces), with the typical rides and games. Most of these are family-run. One of the biggest is McNair. They'd usually stay in tents or RVs parked elsewhere, and then run the rides and games in the daytime and evening. Most people would come at night, play the games and ride the rides, hence "laying their money down". Of course, with it being just the men, then the entertainment is more adult-oriented: booze, sex, gambling, and quite possibly, drugs.
• Karen from Manchester, Nh When I hear the phrase "lay your money down", I think of gambling. I have this whole mind-picture of a camp of gypsies: women dancing, various men doing different things, like gambling, selling booze, "preaching a little gospel", while "outsiders" come in and enjoy. Of course, I've been known for being a bit naive...
• Kat from Adelaide, Australia I think ALL the comments, so far, are right. Great song, with a real lot going on in the lyrics. Yes Dale, it's very much about hypocricy. Good comment Kristin, it is creepy and haunting - nut really damn catchy too! And no Dale, you're not the only one to think the men that "lay their money down" is a reference to prostitution. I think the literal reading of the lyric is that the men are laying their money down every night for the dancing and the "bottles of Doctor Good", but there's definitely the double meaning there - at least in my (dirty) mind.
• Darren from Bedford, United Kingdom is it just me or does the bit that says about "the men....laying their money down" infer that the gypsies are prostitutes? Recently saw the song being sung by a bunch of 15 year old girls at a amateur dramtic production and suspected that is was only me that read this in the lyrics.
• Paul from Kennewick, Wa An awesome classic! I think one of the most haunting and effective features of it was during an episode of The X-Files which was filmed almost entirely in black and white when Mulder and Scully were still together.
• Kristin from Bessemer, Al this record is kind of a bit of everything: creepy, sad, haunting, depressing...but overall, still a great song!
• Dale from Santa Fe, Nm I like the message: people are hypocrites.

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The English Folk Dance and Song Society’s Vaughan Williams Memorial Library’s archives contain many songs sung by Gypsies and Travellers. This resource makes these songs more accessible to the communities from which they came.

Romani Gypsy academic and poet Dr Jo Clement of Northumbria University created this resource in 2023 to make our Gypsy and Traveller collections more accessible, particularly for Gypsy and Traveller people seeking engagement with their cultural heritage.

The resource was developed as part of a project Gypsy and Traveller Voices in UK Music Archives led by Dr Hazel Marsh (University of East Anglia) together with Dr Esbjorn Wettermark (University of Sheffield) and Tiffany Hore, Director of Library and Archives at the English Folk Dance and Song Society. It was funded by the University of East Anglia’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Account.

Through collaboration we are highlighting the richness and importance of Gypsy and Traveller music collections – for communities themselves, supporting the cultural wellbeing of some of the UK’s most marginalised communities, and also for the wider English folk scene.

Suitable for: this resource may be suitable for use by educators working with young people 9 years plus (Year 5 and above) and adults of any age.

Please note: in the resource there are links to historical materials held by the VWML which may contain song lyrics or other content considered offensive by modern standards. Teachers are advised to check these links before sharing with students as materials may need contextualising.

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What do we mean by ‘Gypsy and Traveller’?

Various ethnic groups feature under the umbrella term Gypsy and Traveller. The histories, terminologies, interconnections that relate to these groups are not straightforward. Individuals as well as groups prefer different terms and may subscribe to different discourses about their origins and history. However, current research suggests that Romani Gypsy people migrated from India into Europe in the middle ages, reaching Britain and Ireland in the early 16th century. Irish and some Scottish Travellers, on the other hand, represent indigenous nomadic ethnic groups, with continuous presence in Britain and Ireland. Neither of these groups should be confused with the Roma, mostly East European Romani people, who have arrived on Britain and Ireland in more recent times.

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The Travelling Jewish Wedding

The Golden Gate Gypsy Orchestra of America and California was an itinerant band of engineers, doctors, teachers, and musicians who played their music at weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and other celebrations. Formed in 1976 by friends who shared a love of Yiddish, Russian, and Rom (Gypsy) music, the band was among the first of its kind to blossom in California. Violin, lute, balalaika (a triangular, stringed lute), contra-bass balalaika , bouzouki (a pear-shaped, long-necked lute), accordion, domra (another long-necked lute), and guitar accompany singers from Israel, Russia, and Mill Valley. Tracks include Russian and Ukrainian folk songs, an Israeli love song inspired by King Solomon's Song of Songs , a ritual circumcision song in Ladino (the language of the Spanish Jews), and a classic Yiddish riddle song ("Tumbalalaika") about the mysteries of the heart. The album was originally issued in 1980 and later reissued as part of “THE WORLD” series (now part of the Mickey Hart Collection made available by Smithsonian Folkways).

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