<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552905" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fond Memories Of The Irish Travellers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wanderlust was in them and they moved from place to place<br>In their horse drawn gipsy caravans but they were a happy race<br>Of people for they had the gift of music and they had the gift of song<br>And to the dispossessed of Cromwell their ancestry belong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I loved their pinto horses in their coats of white and brown<br>As they trotted down the byways towards another country Town<br>They parked by a quiet crossroad a few days prior to the horse fair<br>And around their camp fires they sang their songs and drank their grog in the chilly night air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their nickname it was 'Tinker' since they were tinsmiths by trade<br>And their women travelled from door to door for to sell the tin pots and cans their husbands made<br>But they did not like the Tinker name when to them it was referred<br>The tag of travelling people they very much preferred.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The late fifties brought much change in Ireland for those of no fixed abode<br>And the sharp increase in motor cars and trucks forced their horse drawn vans off of the road<br>And though nothing last forever it has always been that way<br>Fond memories of the Irish Travellers till my end with me will stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552905" data-title="Fond Memories Of The Irish Travellers de Francis Duggan" data-description="The wanderlust was in them and they moved from place to place In their horse drawn gipsy caravans but they were a happy race Of people for they had the gift of music and they had the gift of song And to the dispossessed of Cromwell their ancestry ..."></div> </div> </div>

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