| Description | Charles Parker invites members of the travelling community in Dorset to sing songs
Track 1: a woman describes learning songs from her mother when she was a child and trying to teach the songs to her own children, without much success. Other travellers talk amongst themselves about songs, and a male traveller begins singing 2:56 mins
Description of a song sang by a woman to her children. Her children love this song and have tried to teach their children. However, it is no good.
Track 2: a male traveller sings a song expressing his love to a girl through the gift of a ring 0:50 mins
Track 3: a man sings 'oh those words she say, oh son don't start gambling' about a son who broke his promise to his mother and a fragment of another song 3:00 mins
Track 4: the man sings a song beginning 'oh on we went a hunting boy but nothing good we found' 1:54 mins
Track 5: another man sings a song beginning 'oh as me father was apprentice for seven whole long years'. The older man takes up the song 1:16 mins
Track 6: the older male traveller sings a song with unclear lyrics, about a boxing match 1.27 mins
Track 7: a woman sings a song with the chorus 'Don't tie my hands, let me wander' 1.38 mins
Track 8: the woman sings a song 'Teddy O'Neill' 2:35 mins
Track 9: Charles Parker speaks to a member of the settled community in Poole, Dorset, possibly Mr Stacey. He discusses proposals for the establishment of a permanent site for travellers, the selection of thirteen potential sites within the borough, the final choice between three sites and concerns about the proposed site at Roberts Lane Creek Moor, in Poole 1:32 mins
Total: 17.10 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 7L448C0357674 |