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Thread #103777 Message #2118113
Posted By: Rasener
03-Aug-07 - 05:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'She landa' Pete Coe song words
Subject: Lyr Add: AS I ROVED OUT (from Tommy Makem)
AS I ROVED OUT As I roved out on a May morning On a May morning right early I met my love upon the way Oh, Lord but she was early
Chorus: And she sang lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle-dee,- And she hi-di-lan-di-dee, and she hi-di-lan-di-dee and she lan- day
Her boots were black and her stockings white And her buckles shone like silver She had a dark and a rolling eye And her ear-rings tipped her shoulder
Chorus
"What age are you my bonny wee lass What age are you my honey?" Right modestly she answered me "I'll be seventeen on Sunday"
Chorus
"Where do you live my bonny wee lass Where do you live my honey?" "In a wee house up on the top of the hill And I live there with my mammy"
Chorus
"If I went to the house on the top of the hill When the moon was shining clearly Would you arise and let me in And your mammy not to hear you?"
Chorus
I went to the house on the top of the hill When the moon was shining clearly She arose to let me in But her mammy chanced to hear her
Chorus
She caught her by the hair of the head And down to the room she brought her And with the butt of a hazel twig She was the well-beat daughter
Chorus
"Will you marry me now my soldier lad Will you marry me now or never? Will you marry me now my soldier lad For you see I'm done forever"
Chorus
"I can't marry you my bonny wee lass I can't marry you my honey For I have got a wife at home And how could I disown her?"
Chorus
A pint at night is my delight And a gallon in the morning The old women are my heart break But the young ones is my darling