Christy Moore - Johnny Connors lyrics

My name is Johnny Connors I
Am a traveling man
My people have been traveling since
Time it first began
With my horse and covered wagon and
My family by my side grazing the long acre
I traveled far and wide
I met Bridie Maughan my sweet wife
On a fair day in Rathkeale
She was the finest traveling girl
That ever wore a shawl

We worked the tin around Galway
On up to Ballinasloe
For a traveler with a horse to sell
It was the place to go
We sold the old linoleum
Swapped carpets for old pine
But as the years passed on
The traveling life got harder all the time
Where have all the halting places
Gone all them friendly doors
Where we'd haul spring water from the
Well and sell paper flowers
Now it's guards and jailers and JCB's
To roll big boulders in
Temporary dwellings are prohibited
Innocent little traveling children lost
Out on them streets
Sons and Daughters on the wine
And lying round me feet
As they try to dull the hurt
And pain the rejection that's imposed
Travelers are not wanted here but there's
No place left to go

My name is Johnny Connors I
Am a traveling man
I've taken everything that's been
Thrown at me now it's time to make a stand