Status

Cover Song

Song Author

Cher

Recording Session(s)

01/??/88 Dale Crover's bedroom - Aberdeen, WA

Notes

Originally written by Robert Stone and performed by Cher, Nirvana covered this tune at least twice. The date of the circulating version is unknown, while the version done at 1988.01.?? in Dale Crover's bedroom still is not circulating.

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Releases in the Bootography

Alternate/Working Titles

None Documented

Common Mislabels

None Documented

Mislabels in the Bootography

None Documented

Lyrics

(Transcribed Lyrics from the circulating version)

I was born in the wagon of a traveling show
My momma used to dance for the money they'd throw
Papa would do whatever he could
Preach a little gospel
Sell a couple bottles of doctor good

Gypsies tramps and thieves
We'd hear it from the people of the town, they'd call us
Gypsies tramps and thieves
But every night all the men would come around
And lay their money down

Picked up a boy just south of Mobile
Gave him a ride filled him with a hot meal
I was sixteen he was twenty one
Rode with us to Memphis
And papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done

Gypsies tramps and thieves
We'd hear it from the people of the town, they'd call us
Gypsies tramps and thieves
But every night all the men would come around
And lay their money down

Yip!
Yahoo!

She was born in the wagon of a traveling show
Her momma had to dance for the money they'd throw
Grandpa'd do whatever he could
Preach a little gospel
Sell a couple bottles of doctor good

Gypsies tramps and thieves
We'd hear it from the people of the town, They'd call us
Gypsies tramps and thieves
But every night all the men would come around
And lay their money down
blahblahblahblah....
fuck it
fuck it all