Lyr Req: Irish Patriotic Song / As I Roved Out

Subject: Lyr Req: Irish Patriotic Song
From: GUEST,ChS
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 01:18 PM

Who knows the lyrics to this Irish patriotic song?

http://chrsouchon.free.fr/unknown.mid

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish Patriotic Song
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 02:03 PM

See As I Roved Out.  It's really just a simple love song, though people occasionally try to read too much into the final verse.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish Patriotic Song
From: GUEST,ChS
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 02:51 PM

Thank you for the quick answer!
I heard the song in a radio broadcast on Irish patriotic movements: that's why I was misled.

Another question:
What could be the second reading of the last verse:

"A pint a night is my delight,
And a gallon in the morning;
The old women are my heartbreak
But the young ones my darling."?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish Patriotic Song
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 03:33 PM

That's from a completely different song that just happens to share a title with this one (as do quite a few others). Click on the link I provided above, which leads to the song you were looking for.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish Patriotic Song
From: GUEST,Allen
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 03:34 PM

Drinking and chasing after skirt.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Irish Patriotic Song
From: GUEST,Chs
Date: 05 Jun 05 - 05:10 PM

Thanks to both of you.