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Thread #113814 Message #2423079
Posted By: skarpi
27-Aug-08 - 03:23 AM
Thread Name: Origins: A-Rovin' I Will Go (Mills, Russell)
Subject: Lyr Add: A-ROVIN' I WILL GO (Mills, Russell)
almost ten years ago , je ...........
ja but then I wanted the lyric right ? I think
but...... I am told that it could be from Boston ???
I just want to know more about it
ATB skarpi
P.S
A-ROVIN' I WILL GO
Been sitting in this alehouse for five long days and nights, Deciding to forget her and just get on with me life. It's springtime in the valleys, it's springtime in me head, And if I can't do no better than this I might as well be dead.
Me name it is O'Hara, I was twenty in the fall, And there's me brother Kevin, well we're not alike at all. I'll never be a bank clerk, nor wheat nor barley sow, I'll kiss me ma at the break of dawn, and a rovin' I will go.
Chorus: A rovin' I will go I'm off to seek me fortune, I'll dig for gold by day and in the nighttime I'll be courtin'. A rovin' I will go, from Dublin across to Boston And west to California and back if I be wantin'.
Sweet Mary was me sunshine, sweet Mary was so true, Sweet Mary dug me heart out, then she cut it right in two. And now a voice is calling, as pure as falling snow, O'Hara, stop your bawling, for a rovin' you must go.
(chorus)
Farewell to this old alehouse, farewell to all me friends. There's something new beginning every time that something ends. I'll never leave completely, for in my heart you'll be, When I return I promise now the drinks will be on me.