Luke Kelly Thirty Foot Trailer Chords

_ _ _ The old ways are changing you cannot [Bb] deny
The day of the traveler is over
_ [N] There's nowhere to go and there's nowhere to [B] bide
So [Gm] farewell to the life [Eb] of the [Ab] road
_ [D] _ _ [Bb] Goodbye to the tent and the old [F] [Bb] caravan
To the tinker the gypsy the traveling man and goodbye to the [Eb] 30 [Bb]-foot trailer
_ Farewell to the can't and the Romani tongue
Farewell to the Romani talking
The buying and selling the old fortune telling the knock on [Eb] the door and the [Bb] hawking
Goodbye [Gm] to the tent and the [F] old [Bb] caravan to the tinker the gypsy the traveling man and goodbye to the 30 [Eb]-foot [Bb] trailer _
Farewell to the beasoms of heather and broom
Farewell to the creels under the basket
The folks of today they would [Eb] far sooner [Bb] pay for a thing that's been made out of plastic
_ Goodbye to the tent and the [F] old [Bb] caravan to the tinker the gypsy the traveling man and goodbye to the [Eb] 30-foot [Bb] trailer
_ The old ways are passing and soon they'll be gone more progress is I a big factor
It's sent to afflict us and when they evict us they'll tow us away [Eb] with a [Bb] tractor
_ Goodbye to the tent and the old [F] [Bb] caravan to the tinker the gypsy the traveling man and goodbye to the [Eb] 30-foot [Bb] trailer
_ Farewell to the pony the cob and the mare the reins and the harness are I
You don't need a strap when you're breaking [Bb] up scraps.
Oh farewell to the bitch and the bride
_ _ Goodbye to the tent and the [F] old [Bb] caravan to the tinker the gypsy the traveling man and farewell to [Eb] the 30-foot [Bb] trailer
_ Farewell to the fields where we've sweated and toiled up pollen and crowning and lifting
They'd soon have machines and the traveling Queens and their men folk can better [Cm] be [Bb] shared
_ Goodbye to the tent and the old [F] caravan [Bb] to the tinker the gypsy the traveling man and goodbye to the [Eb] 30-foot [Bb] trailer
_ You've got to move fast to keep up with the times for these days a man [N] cannot gonder
_ There's a bylaw to say you must be [Abm] on your way [Bb] and another to say you [Eb] can't walk
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