This song was written in the sixties - it has elements of fantasy - Van listened a lot to the radio and imagined the "barefoot gypsy player round the campfire sing and play"
BTW - he uses the Gaelic pronunciation for Radio - RADDEO - he listened to the Southern-Irish radio from Belfast
This song was written in the sixties - it has elements of fantasy - Van listened a lot to the radio and imagined the "barefoot gypsy player round the campfire sing and play"
BTW - he uses the Gaelic pronunciation for Radio - RADDEO - he listened to the Southern-Irish radio from Belfast