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The Rambling Irishman

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Performer: Brazil, Danny
Place Collected: Staverton
Date collected: 1978 (5 May)
Collector: Davies, Gwilym
Roud Number: 360

As a song this is at least 200 years old and it is first referenced as “The Roving Journeyman”.   Most of the ramblers are Irishmen, but they can be pedlars or, navvy men or in a related version as a “Roving Gambler”. It has been found wherever English is spoken. In view of the Irish vocabulary in the song, it is likely that Danny Brazil learnt his version in Ireland.

Notes by Gwilym Davies 18 May 2015

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