Originally published in 1977. The Travellers, from those living in
bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor
caravans and permanent homes, are an important source of
traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died
out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan
MacColl and Peggy Seeger, widely known as two of the founding
singers of the British and American folk revivals, here display a
vast fund of folklore scholarship around the songs of British
travelling people. Resulting from extensive collecting in southern
and southeastern England and central and northeastern Scotland in
the 1960s and 70s, this book contains 130 songs with music and
comprehensive notes relating them to folkloristic and historical
points of interest. It includes traditional ballads and ballads of
broadside origin, bawdy, tragic and humorous songs about love, work
and death. Most are in English or in Scots dialect with four in
Anglo-Romani.
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