The Travelling Life Lyrics

I hit my back down on the floor

The winter air blows cold

I lay alone wrapped in my tent

Thinking of days of old

I think all night of the days I spent

As a young boy running free

But now I'm a man of the Travelling People

And this is my decree

I'm a freeborn man no one can buy my life

For no amount of money would make me change my life

I choose my path, I will do all my life

For the rest of my days

I'll live the travelling life

In the summertime I would wait

And linger for a while

I'd whisper to the girls

Oh I'd surely make them smile

But now I linger no longer

In fact I do move faster

No money could buy my life

But time is still my master

I'm a freeborn man no one can buy my life

For no amount of money would make me change my life

I choose my path, I will do all my life

For the rest of my days

I'll live the travelling life

There's many a thing I've seen

All along this dusty road

And many a friend I've made

Along the way

We'd meet with other people

To swap news of lands afar

Then head onward south

To decay

I'm a freeborn man no one can buy my life

For no amount of money would make me change my life

I choose my path, I will do all my life

For the rest of my days

I'll live the travelling life

Where to go now, where to go

Where to go now, where to go

Some people speak of a time to come

When the travelling man is gone

But I'll travel my whole life

That's for sure

For I'm the last of the travelling people

The last to carry my name

So I'll travel till I reach deaths door

I'm a freeborn man no one can buy my life

For no amount of money would make me change my life

I choose my path, I will do all my life

For the rest of my days

I'll live the travelling life