Born in the middle of the afternoon
                                
In a horsedrawn carriage on the old 

The big twelve wheeler shook my bed, 
                        
"You can't stay here" the policeman said.
 [bad word] 
                       
You'd better get born in some place else.
                             
So move along, get along, Move along, get along,
      
Go! Move! Shift!
Born in [bad word] by a building site
Where the ground [bad word] by the trail of wheels
The local Christian said to me, 
"You'll lower the price of property."
 [bad word] 
Born at potato picking time
In a noble tent in a tatie field.
The farmer said, "The work's all done
It's time that you was moving on."
 [bad word] 
Born at the back of a hawthorn hedge
Where the black hole frost lay on the ground.
No eastern kings came bearing gifts.
Instead the order came to shift.
 [bad word] 
The eastern sky was full of stars
And one shone brighter than the rest 
The wise men came so stern and strict
And brought the orders to evict
 [bad word] 
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
 [bad word] 
Six in the morning out in Inchicore
The guards came through the wagon door.
John Maughan was arrested in the cold
travelling boy just ten years old.
 [bad word] 
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.