{"id":31027,"date":"2026-05-16T22:06:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/?p=31027"},"modified":"2026-05-17T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:19:10","slug":"gypsies-tramps-and-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/gypsies-tramps-and-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cher<\/p>\n<p>Chords provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moselele.co.uk\">Moselele<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Intro: [Amadd9] [Am] [Amadd9] [Am] [Amadd9] [Am] [Amadd9] [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I was [Am] born in the wagon of a [C] travellin&#8217; show<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">My [Dm] mama used to dance for the [F] money they&#8217;d throw<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[C] Papa would do what[Em]ever he [Amadd9] could [Am] [Amadd9] [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[D] Preach a little gospel [Dm]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G7] Sell a couple bottles of Doctor [C] Good<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[F] Gyp-[Cmaj7]-sies [F] tramps and [Cmaj7] thieves<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We&#8217;d [F] hear it from the [Cmaj7] people of the [F] town<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They&#8217;d [Cmaj7] call us<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[F] Gyp-[Cmaj7]s-ies [F] tramps and [Cmaj7] thieves<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Am*] But every night [G*] all the men would [F*] come around&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[*] And lay their money [Amadd9] down [Am] [Amadd9]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Am] [Amadd9] [Am] [Amadd9] [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Am] Picked up a boy just [C] south of Mobile<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] Gave him a ride filled him [F] with a hot meal<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[C] I was sixteen he was [Em] twenty [Amadd9] one [Am] [Amadd9] [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[D] Rode with us to Memphis [Dm]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And [G7] papa woulda shot him if he knew what he&#8217;d [C] done<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[F] Gyp-[Cmaj7]-sies [F] tramps and [Cmaj7] thieves<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We&#8217;d [F] hear it from the [Cmaj7] people of the [F] town<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They&#8217;d [Cmaj7] call us<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[F] Gyp-[Cmaj7]-sies [F] tramps and [Cmaj7] thieves<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Am*] But every night [G*] all the men would [F*] come around&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[*] And lay their money down [Dm] [C] [Dm] [C]I [Dm] never had [C] schoolin&#8217; but he [Dm] taught me [C] well<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With his [Dm] smooth [C] southern [Dm] style [C]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Dm] Three months [C] later I&#8217;m a [Dm] gal in [C] trouble<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And I [Dm] haven&#8217;t seen [C] him [Dm] for a<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Cmaj7] whiiiiiile u [Fmaj7] huuuuuuuuh<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I haven&#8217;t seen him for a [Cmaj7] whiiiiiile u [Fmaj7] huuuuuuuuh<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She was [Am] born in the wagon of a [C] travellin&#8217; show<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Her [Dm] mama had to dance for the [F] money they&#8217;d throw<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[C] Grandpa\u2019d do what[Em]ever he [Amadd9] could [Am] [Amadd9] [Am]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[D] Preach a little gospel [Dm]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[G7] Sell a couple bottles of Doctor [C] Good<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[F] Gyp-[Cmaj7]-sies [F] tramps and [Cmaj7] thieves<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We&#8217;d [F] hear it from the [Cmaj7] people of the [F] town<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They&#8217;d [Cmaj7] call us<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[F] Gyp-[Cmaj7]-sies [F] tramps and [Cmaj7] thieves<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Am*] But every night [G*] all the men would [F*] come around&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[*] And lay their money [Amadd9] down [Am] [Amadd9]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[Am] [Amadd9] [Am] [Amadd9] [Am]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cher Chords provided by Moselele Intro: [Amadd9] [Am] [Amadd9] [Am] [Amadd9] [Am] [Amadd9] [Am] I was [Am] born in the wagon of a [C] travellin&#8217; show My [Dm] mama used to dance for the [F] money they&#8217;d throw [C] Papa would do what[Em]ever he [Amadd9] could [Am] [Amadd9] [Am] [D] &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/gypsies-tramps-and-thieves\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moselele-credits","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31028,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31027\/revisions\/31028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}