The Wild Rover (reformed) by The Shambles

The Shambles' Comments:  With love and affection to and for all parties.

I've been a 'Wild Rover', now I've seen the light
I won't be 'Leaving Liverpool' every night
I've packed up my songbook, and you'll understand
I'll not tie it up with a 'Black Velvet Band'

If they call out for a 'Jug Of Punch'
Tell them politely that I'm out to lunch
I'll leave Captain Farrell alone in the bar
From now on the 'Whiskey' can stay 'In The Jar'

My fingers were only for holding my beer
But now I know better, they fit in your ear
Now its worthy tradition and a very hard slog
Where once it was only 'All For Me Grog'

I'll not 'Tell me Ma' when I get home
I'll not be in 'Dublin's Fair City' alone
No more will a week be 'Seven Drunken Nights'
But long songs about tokens till they turn out the lights

You may have thought things couldn't get worse
But I've nearly remembered the 31st verse
When I can remember the full 93
There's nothing on earth that is stopping me

Its hard to be saying, goodbye old guitar
When I've been for so long, 'County Down's Star'
I will no longer, make those 'Fiddler's Green'
By slipping, now and then, a song in between

The session's loss is the sing-around's gain
For I never will play the 'Wild Rover' again
I may be missed when I'm no longer around
Don't look for me to get your 'Lobby Washed Down'

You won't find me staying on that 'Holy Ground'
But awaiting my turn, at the next sing a round
I know that this news will fill you with joy
I may still bring along my old pal 'Danny Boy'

And its, no nay never, no nay never no more
Will I play the Wild Rover
No never no more – Until the next time.