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THE TRAVELLING TITHOTS

HOTSHOT STREET SHOWS

My uncle is a Gypsy man

he travels with my aunt

I want to go away with them

but my mum says I can't.

They tell me stories of far away

across the whole wide world -

I feel just like a captive bird

whose wings can't be unfurled.

I want to see the morning sun

and climb the highest peaks

and listen to the different sounds

and the way the people speak.

I want to see the ancient sites

and eat all sorts of things

and talk with people everywhere

and sit right next to kings.

But my mum says I've got to stay

and do my chores at home

and study hard and go to bed

and forget the urge to roam.

So I'm going to slip out

one starry night

when the desert winds do blow

and set out on my wanderings 

to learn all there is to know.

I'm going to go my own sweet way

and give it my best shot

to be a force within a magic band -

a Travelling Tithot!

‘JUST PASSING BY’

EUROPEAN TOUR 2008

Old Isleworth, UK

Deux Sevres France

andypritchard@btinternet.com

LOVE FOREVER

"As I went walking I saw a sign there

And on the sign it said 'No Trespassing.' 


But on the other side it didn't say nothing, 


That side was made for you and me."

THE TRAVELLING TITHOTS

TOUR 2009

'we’ll not be here again...’

old isleworth uk

deux sevres france

andypritchard@btinternet.com

'put out these eyes that cannot see
no matter how they strain
and replace them with the peaceful ones
for all Eternity.

Put out these eyes that cannot see
no matter how they strain,
we have no earthly use for them


we’ll not be here again.........'

LOVE FOREVER

Live for Now

THE TRAVELLING TITHOT(S)

HOTSHOT STREET SHOWS

2009





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The Travelling Tithots


"Redhot raiders"
2010
 'it's alright now..'






'My love is like a red, red rose
that's newly sprung in June
my love is like a melody
that's sweetly sung in tune.


So fair thou art my bonnie lass
so deep in love am I
I will love you still my dear
'til all the seas gang dry.


'Til all the seas gang dry my dear
and the rocks melt with the sun
I will love the still my dear
while the sands of Life do run.


So it's fare the well my only love
it's fare the well awhile
and I will surely come again
though it were ten thousand mile.'


(origin anon)

TT Rider

He played until his fingers bled

he'd found his Way -

but he dropped down dead

or at least that's what the audience said.

'We liked what we heard
but his speech became slurred
he puffed and he wheezed
looked a trifle absurd
'til we realised he'd uttered his final word -

something quite ancient
but sad and unheard........'

'I am perplexed'
he breathed
as his voice cracked from the fifth to the third
'I've found a way
where I don't have to pay
for the pleasure I find in every day.......'

But he'd started to sway
then his legs gave way
and the audience stared
at the ground where he lay.....



He'd played until his fingers bled
he'd found his Way
but he'd dropped down dead.



They stepped over his corpse as they passed up the street
shared out the coins around his feet

some glanced back at his tousled head -

all hurried

some fled

some sighed -
and then looked

to the Future
ahead.

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Their SilenTT Song 

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Life has nearly overwhelmed them

in an almost undeniable drenching

by some far-off

tumbling

tsunami

a crashing

crumbling

catastrophe.

Although guttering in the wind sometime

and dimmed by teams of tortured slaves

the flame has flickered and kept alive.

Straight-backed and straining

on exposed hillsides

TThey laboured

standing firm on heathlands vast

where it never stopped its raining.

Leave the children

inside

Home

by firesides bright

where all is right

and nothing's overwhelming.

Love forever

live for Now

and keep tight hold of

our star-shaped

Plough.

We were not born to dither

or linger in the shade

Life will not overwhelm us

nor will our bright light fade.

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'gheTToised'

(at home with the TTs)

Live your life in the ghetto

with the other dispossessed -

amongst the sari and the hijab
the tank-top and the yashmak,

and warmth and love and friendship

and a simmering unrest.






There’s markets and there’s sewers
and lines of flower stalls,

there’s miscellaneous shop-fronts
and brightly lit dance-halls.

There’s billiards and there’s poppadoms
and piles of rubber shoes

there’s majesty and misery
and people hooked on booze.

There’s a backdrop of bridges
and cats amongst the litter -

twisted paper and some plastic cups
in puddles of Yorkshire bitter.

There’s churches and gurdwaras
and parks for the older men,

there’s shouting and there’s screaming
and a flashing police siren.







There’s no entrance and no exit,
no sign on the tourist trap -

just a multitude of faces
that span the human map.







So let the stateless find a homeland
on these streets just made for giving -

and let the solitary find their family
in these homes crammed full with living.







yes, let’s stay home in the ghetto

with our friends the dispossessed

where the roads are full of All of Us



and our simmering unrest

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THE TRAVELLING 

TITHOTS

HOTSHOT STREET SHOWS

2008

2009

2010

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mouTTh organ

    play 

some midnighTTnoodling

LOVE FOREVER

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2011


THE
TRAVELLING TITHOTS


a fabulous song with no music
to start 
the year:-


'femme fabuleuse'

in the in the hollows of your mind find the webs that sunlight spun 

and

gaze down narrowing corridors to where the world had just begun,

then take this message to that stately queen - 

she has a magical son.

Hover over waking sleep

in that space that’s in between

and when you know the world around you

is mainly twisted 

and obscene

and that’s 

how it’s always been -

then tell this story to that magical queen - 

it’s about her stately son.

Read forgotten writings with rapt and gentle attention

then breathe a secret to her Majesty

that you are her magic son.

Yes

it’s you 

who are that son.

He’ll travel the whole world over

and make Right every Wrong,

and through the rhythm 

of his Vision

he’ll try to teach us all to sing

a Universal song.

We’ll laugh and cry 

with our love of life,

and say we knew it 

all along

no reason for him to doubt us,

for that’s what 

made us strong.

Quick,

find that jewelled and stately queen

before it gets too late

before her son has flown away

to search some other Fate -

before the evening falls

and night is all around -

by then he will have disappeared

called by another sound.

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Too late now

for night has made a blanket

to lay out on the ground -

made a seascape in the starlit sky 

and holds the Universe 

spellbound.

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The night sky’s beach 

is smashed and broken

by the wind and waves that pound

on the long forgotten shoreline 

hidden from all view

behind the harbour wall

that holds tight it’s frozen grip

on that misty masted sinking ship

and it’s slowly drowning crew. 

Now go 

diving to those icy depths

where the queen first found her crown

where she lathers in the moonlight

with all defences down.

Go to her she’s calling

from that palace underground

 
where stars flow across the ceiling

of the chamber

where she was crowned.

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Now you see the river springing

where the colour’s marine blue

it flows straight out of a crevice

eternally renewed

It was hewn out of the rock there 

symmetric

curved

and

true.

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Just

take sixpence for your trouble 

now you pass on through

but 

could you first climb up those mossy stones 

to that stately silent Queen

and tell her

that she really was the One 

- sitting on her crystal throne

when the world had just begun -

who’d journeyed 

to the End of things

and birthed a magic son.

He’s

carried by the rhythms

in his Visions

and the power of beautiful things,

he travels the whole world over

on a mighty eagle’s wings.

He’ll fix the wars and conquer death

and make Right every Wrong,

and he’ll help us all remember,

while he tries to keep us strong,

the love and hope and charity

in the

Universal song 

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(the Travelling Tithots, January 2011)

LOVE FOREVER 

Live for Now

remember

the song

with no 

ending

Search until you find your Own Way

(your Own Way) 

and then

'Do what thou wilt'


shall be


'the Whole of the Law'

The Travelling Tithots

April 20th 2011

jygsid 

(G.C,D,C,G)

The sun is in the sky high

your eyes are clearest blue

the weather has all changed around

but I’m still in love with you

the buds are are on our oak tree

the stars are in the sky

telling ancient stories

for only you and I

(C,G,D,C,G)

the spirits are calling silently

from an old greenwood

they would tell us everything

if they only could

(C,G,Bm,Am,G)

things aren’t as they should be

something’s not quite right

but you’ll find me in the Nothing

where I’m far out of sight

(G.C,D,C,G)

he drank some honeyedlemon

on his own birthday

he thought that these simple words

had something else to say

(C,G,D,C,G)

he sat out in the sunshine

but his feet they were still cold

spent another day floating

growing slowly old

(C,G,D,C,G)

lean out of your window

with your hair hanging low

the comets are approaching you

in a stately row

(G,C,Bm,Am,G)
there’s acres and acres and acres of space

and lots of dreams to chase

lean out of your window

with your lovely golden face

(G,C,D,C.G)
buttercup meadow came full into view

lay with me in yellow

and follow these thoughts through

being kind of busy in a lazy sort of way

there’s no water flowing

but we’re floating right away

(C,G,Bm,Am,G)

yes we're 
being kind of busy in a lazy sort of way

catching the words that fall from trees

as they gently sway


Bm,Am,G


(G.C.D,C,G)

 now a
dandelion elephant has puffed right away

 his table is now empty

but his spirit never went away




(C,G,Bm,Am,G)

yes the dandelion elephant is playing away

his table is now empty 

but no-one here can stay

(C,G,D,C,G)

turn this Now so quickly into Past

and don’t you ever complain to me

because Life goes by too fast. 

 (reprise}

(G.C,D,C,G)

the sun is in a sky

that’s as blue as your eye

the stars will be out tonight

shining so bright

(C,G,Bm,Am,G)

the oak of that tree

is ancient memory

and so is the love between you and me

(C,G,Bm,Am,G)

turn this Now so quickly into Past

and don’t you ever complain to me

because 
Life goes by too fast. 

SepTTember 

2011

the only way is Love 

&

Love is the only way.

.....

can we let the prisons open
can the birds unfettered fly
will trees just keep on blooming
beneath this darkening concrete sky?




Time is now
to get away 
and find a simple empty place
where the children rise each morning
and forget they have to cry


but note
the black crow walking
right along the dusty street
stepping through the garbage 
strewn around its feet












far away in another world,
neither here nor there,
there lives a silent serpent man
dressed in robes of darkest brown
sewn deep inside the ground
his cap askew, one eyelid shut
his back toward the view:


deep in thoughts of distant lands
where what he knew was new  


meddling in the medina 
where the airs rush in

past coverless windows 
and mudbrick walls

he locked the door and stayed inside
deep intside his mind


lights burning far into the night

 
he saw the starlight arcing
high above the roof
reflecting in the river
his dreams for hope 
and knowledge 
of some actual, 
lasting truth














Time is now 
to get away 


and find that simple empty place 


where we find 
Time
to  
play










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Days come dancing  and Life swirls travelling on

Words stillspoken in clumsy Mouths

Darts in the Night

echoing all that's wrong

silent Singers going strong

on the same old troubled Song

Lessons are learnt

and learnt and learnt

but still from Time to Time

you get your Fingers burnt.

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Leaves in the wind  as clouds close the sky

trials, travels with the world's angry eye

tribulation to incantation

the day whole long

the world slid away

as he sang his one one song

travails and trails the whole day long.

Things didn't make sense like they did before

the place is stale, the air's not pure anymore

knowall sees all is a chore

search where the rivets link the armoured plate

then rip off the curtain

that hides the sunset hour

travelling tithots Spring 2012

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1

ONE

ONE


1


(D, A, G.)


one World

one chance

one song
one dance

one love

one life

one promise 
one wife

one meeting

one friend

one start

one end.

One's gain

one's loss

one's pain
one's Cross

one's kith

one's kin

one's soul

one's skin

one's heart
one's mind

one's search
one's find


one's moment
in Time.