Hi All, I want to perform all possible versions of the "A-Rovin" song, and I want to ask you for help. In my edition of "Shanties from the Seven Seas", Stan Hugill's' is only 2 versions but Stan named second version (d), which tends me to a thing is somewhere version (b) and (c), if anyone has access to the previous edition of this book an check for me?
Also, any other pieces of information about this song sung by Stan Hugill will be great.


Here version (A)

A-ROVIN'
(alternate titles: Amsterdam or The Maid of Amsterdam)

In Amsterdam there lived a maid
Mark well what I do say!
In Amsterdam there lived a maid
And she was mistress of her trade
We'll go no more a-rovin' with you fair maid

CHORUS
A-rovin', a-rovin', since rovin's bin me ru-i-in
We'll go no more a-rovin' with you fair maid

2. One night I crept from my abode.
Ch. Mark well what I do say!
One night I crept from my abode
To meet this fair maid down the road.
Ch. We'll go no more a-rovin' with you, fair maid.
Full Chorus
A-rov-in', a-rovin', Since rovin's bin me ru-i-in,
We'll go no more a-rovin', With you, fair maid.

3. I met this fair maid after dark,
An' took her to her favourite park.

4. I took this fair maid for a walk,
An' we had such a lovin' talk.

5. I put me arm around her waist,
Sez she, 'Young man, yer in great haste!'

6. I put me hand upon her knee,
Sez she, 'Young man, yer rather free!'

7. I put me hand upon her thigh,
Sez she, 'Young man, yer rather high!'

8. I towed her to the Maiden's Breast,
From south the wind veered wes'sou'west [sou'sou'west].

9. An' the eyes in her head turned east an' west,
And her thoughts wuz as deep as an ol' sea-chest.

10. We had a drink—of grub a snatch,
We sent two bottles down the hatch.

11. Her dainty arms wuz white as milk,
Her lovely hair wus soft as silk.

12. Her heart wuz poundin' like a drum,
Her lips wuz red as any plum.

13. We laid down on a grassy patch,
An' I felt such a ruddy ass.

14. She pushed me over on me back,
She laughed so hard her lips did crack.

15. She swore that she'd be true to me,
But spent me pay-day fast and free.

16. In three weeks' time I wuz badly bent,
Then off to sea I sadly went.

17. In a bloodboat Yank bound round Cape Horn,
Me boots an' clothes wuz all in pawn.

18. Bound round Cape Stiff through ice an' snow,
An' up the coast to Callyo.

19. An' then back to the Liverpool Docks,
Saltpetre stowed in our boots an' socks.

20. Now when I got back home from sea,
A soger had her on his knee.

Source: Shanties from the Seven Seas, collected by Stan Hugill, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1961), pp 45-52.