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Born in the middle of the afternoon

 In a horse drawn carriage on the old A5

The big twelve wheeler shook my bed

"You can't stay here" the policeman said

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You'd better get born in some place else

 So move along, get along, Move along, get along

Go! Move! Shift!

Born in the common by a building site

Where the ground was rutted by the trail of wheels

The local Christian said to me

You'll lower the price of property

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Six in the morning out in Inchicore

The guards came through the wagon door

John Maughan was arrested in the cold

A traveling boy just ten years old

Mary Joyce was living at the side of the road

No halting place and no fixed abode

The vigilantes came to the Darndale site

And they shot her son in the middle of the night

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Wagon, tent or trailer born

Last month, last year or in far off days

Born here or a thousand miles away

There's always men nearby who'll say

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