Biography:
David Francey is a Scottish-born Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Born on 17 November 1954 in Ayrshire, Scotland, Francey immigrated to Canada with his family at age 12. After spending much of his life doing labour such as carpentry, he began a career in folk music in 1999, quickly making a name for himself on the folk festival circuit where he continues to perform.
Since leaving construction and recording Torn Screen Door in 1999, Francey has established himself as one of today’s finest singer-songwriters.
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Other songs:
- A Conversation
- A Thousand Miles
- All Lights Burning Bright
- Ankle Tattoo
- Annies House
- Ashtabula
- Badlands
- Ballad Of Bowser Macrae
- Banks Of The Seaway
- Belgrade Train
- Bitterroot
- Blue Heart Of Texas
- Blue Skies
- Broken Glass
- Cheap Motel
- Come Rain Or Come Shine
- Evening News
- February Morning Drive
- Flowers Of Saskatchewan
- Fourth Of July
- Grateful
- Green Fields
- Gypsy Boys
- Hammers
- Hard Steel Mill
- Harm
- Highway
- Highway 95
- Highwire
- Kansas
- Long Long Road
- Long Way Home
- Lucky Man
- Midway
- Mill Towns
- Ordinary Man
- Over You
- Paper Boy
- Pretty Jackals
- Promised Land
- Rain
- Red
- Saints And Sinners
- Satellite
- Saturday Night
- Skating Rink
- So Say We All
- Solitary Wave
- St Johns Train
- Sumach Street
- Sunday Morning
- The Chief Engineer
- The Waking Hour
- Things They Do
- Tonight In My Dreams
- Wanna Be Loved
- Weather Vane
- Wind In The Wires
- Wishing Well
- Wonder
- Working Poor
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David Francey - Gypsy Boys
INTRO: D A D A D G C G D G D A D
A
Times down here they was hard as life
D
Ice on the frozen river
A
And the promises made by the men in grey
D
They seem to be delivered
G C G
Deaken and me we were marking time
D G
In the ranks of the unemployed
D A
When they hired us on for a week or so
D A D
To work with the Gypsy Boys, oh
A
Well, the factory closed down yesterday
D
The textiles' turn tomorrow
A
Say what you will, but down this way
D
One goes, the other follows
G C G
So it's up you riggers, up you riggers go
D G
While your chains around, rejoice
D A
'Cause they hired us on for a week or so
D
To work with the Gypsy Boys
INSTRUMENTAL: D A D A D G C G D G D A D
A
Well, the lights come up and the crowd goes home
D
And they're bringing the stage-hand down
A
And we're paid our wages and the loading's over
D
We're gone to another town
G C G
And from Pennsylvania in the great North West
D G
From Champagne, Illinois
D A
Well, they've hired us on for a week or so
D
To work with the Gypsy Boys, oh
G C G
For they're calling the towns, tipping all ashore
D G
All lights and fire and noise
D A
And they've hired us on for a week or so
D A D
To work with the Gypsy Boys
INTRO: D A D A D G C G D G D A D
A
Times down here they was hard as life
D
Ice on the frozen river
A
And the promises made by the men in grey
D
They seem to be delivered
G C G
Deaken and me we were marking time
D G
In the ranks of the unemployed
D A
When they hired us on for a week or so
D A D
To work with the Gypsy Boys, oh
A
Well, the factory closed down yesterday
D
The textiles' turn tomorrow
A
Say what you will, but down this way
D
One goes, the other follows
G C G
So it's up you riggers, up you riggers go
D G
While your chains around, rejoice
D A
'Cause they hired us on for a week or so
D
To work with the Gypsy Boys
INSTRUMENTAL: D A D A D G C G D G D A D
A
Well, the lights come up and the crowd goes home
D
And they're bringing the stage-hand down
A
And we're paid our wages and the loading's over
D
We're gone to another town
G C G
And from Pennsylvania in the great North West
D G
From Champagne, Illinois
D A
Well, they've hired us on for a week or so
D
To work with the Gypsy Boys, oh
G C G
For they're calling the towns, tipping all ashore
D G
All lights and fire and noise
D A
And they've hired us on for a week or so
D A D
To work with the Gypsy Boys
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