The Gypsy Is A Gentleman

Album: The Travelling People (1964)
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Songfacts®:

  • Published in The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook: Sixty Years Of Songmaking, "The Gypsy Is A Gentleman" from the 1964 film The Travelling People is in 2/4 time, was sung by John Faulkner and is copyright 1968 by Stormking Music.

    The song is about a "freeborn man of the traveling people." He doesn't have a permanent home, but he wouldn't have it any other way. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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