Sam Lee: 'There is a difference in the songs Gypsies sing'

Sam Lee didn't want to find out about folk music from archives. Instead he has trawled traveller sites, learning from families who have passed these songs down the generationsFreda Black leans forward in her armchair, arches back her shoulders and sings a song about the boy Jesus being given a thrashing by his mother. As an 85-year-old mother-of-nine herself – now a great-grandmother too – Freda knows about such things, after living among her people, the Roma, on the road until the age of 30...

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