RAMBLIN' ROVER
(Andy M. Stewart)

CHORUS
There's sober men and plenty and drunkards barely twenty
There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl
But give me a ramblin' rover, frae Orkney down tae Dover
We will roam the country over and together we'll face the world

I have been throughout our nation ta'en delight in all creation
I've enjoyed a wee sensation when the company did prove kind
And when partin' was no pleasure, I've drunk another measure
To the good friends that we treasure for they always are in wir minds

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There's many who feign enjoyment from merciless employment
Their ambition was this deployment from the minute they left the school
And they save and scrape and ponder while the rest go out and squander
See the world and rove and wander and we're happier as a rule

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When you're bent up with arthritis, your bowels have got colitis
You've got gallopin' bollockitis and you're thinkin' it's time you died
If you've been a man of action, but you're lyin' there in traction
You can gain some satisfaction thinking "Jesus, at least I tried!"

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