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Tenpenny Bit
02:43
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Star of the County Down
04:09
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Rights of man
02:07
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4. |
Step it out Mary
02:23
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5. |
The little beggarman
02:16
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Frost is lying on the railroad tracks
The nights are getting colder
Billy's huddling in his sack
Will he be getting any older?
Hard times are a way of life
For the gypsy-living Billy
Kicked around from town to town
Now it's just getting silly
Black cat snuggled on his knee
Sometimes sleeping high up in the trees
Living barely from day to day
Billy feels his life slipping away
But he can play the accordion
Like it's going out of fashion
Gypsies gather round the railroad tracks
Fiddles singing, cymbals crashing
He's got nothing but the shirt on his back
But Billy plays accordion at the railroad tracks
Well his life sounds pretty tough
His existence is hard
But playing music keeps his soul alive
On the squeezebox or guitar
His grandfather passed his secrets along
He inherited the fingers
He celebrates what he has in song
The pain it never lingers
Chorus
Repeat Verse 1
Chorus
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A hasty trip
02:30
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8. |
The Limerick rake
02:32
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9. |
Celtic rag
01:38
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10. |
My Irish home
02:26
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The Bing Turkby Ensemble Palmerston North, New Zealand
In 1996 the Bing Turkby Ensemble was one man, a wig and a tape deck. The band now features this cast of miscreants: Tyrone T. Blowhard (sax), Slapskins McBOOOm (drums), and Ajax MacDeth (bass).
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