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Thread #124376 Message #2747602
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
18-Oct-09 - 08:16 PM
Thread Name: I sing ' Wild Rover' and am proud of it!
Subject: RE: I sing ' Wild Rover' and am proud of it!
Yes that's a great version!
Here's another, to the more familiar tune:
WILD ROVER PARODY BY Hamish Imlach and Iain Mackintosh
We've both been folksingers for twenty-five years We will sing half the night for the fun and free beers But now that we're older we both know the score No we never will play the Wild Rover no more
I know it's a song one that pleases the folk But I have to admit that it just makes me choke A night with a sore tooth is more fun to me Than to sing even one verse, never mind two or three
It's a song that's requested again and again If I hear it once more it'll drive me insane The words all sound stupid it just makes me wild And the tune could be learnt by a two-year old child
I'll go to a folk club, take a shotgun along And I'll shoot the first bastard who asks for that song And the hangman will say as I fall through the floor Now you never will play the Wild Rover no more