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Thread #1239   Message #1226646
Posted By: Jim Dixon
15-Jul-04 - 10:58 PM
Thread Name: Origins: She Had a Dark and a Rovin' Eye
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: She Had a Dark and a Rovin' Eye
I found this information at http://www.lyricsdepot.com/guy-mitchell/roving-kind.html
(allmusic confirms authorship.)

THE ROVING KIND
[Recorded by] Guy Mitchell
Written by Jesse Cavanaugh and Arnold Stanton

Peaked at # 4 in 1951
Competing versions by The Weavers hit # 11 and by Rex Allen hit #20.
Adapted from the old 1800s English folk song "The Pirate Ship."

Sorry, I can't do chords, but there are sound samples at allmusic—see link above. Maybe someone can listen to them and work out the chords for you.