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Thread #5989   Message #329754
Posted By: Clinton Hammond2
29-Oct-00 - 12:55 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Ramblin' Rover (Andy M. Stewart)
Subject: Lyr Add: RAMBLIN' ROVER (Andy M. Stewart)
I'll post 'em provided you never refer to this song by anything of than it's name... Ramblin Rover...

And you'll get no chrds from me 'cause it's a a capella song... Don't put music behind it please... It always sounds horrible when people to that to a capella songs...

RAMBLIN' ROVER
Andy M. Stewart

Oh there's sober men in plenty and drunkards barely twenty
There are men of over ninety that have never yet kissed a girl.
But give me a ramblin' rover from Orkney down to Dover
And we'll roam the country over and together we'll face the world

There's many who feign enjoyment from merciless employment
Their ambition was this deployment from the minute they left the school
And they save and scrape and ponder while the rest go out and squander
See the world and rove and wander and they're happier as a rule

I've roamed through all the nations t'an delight in all creation
And enjoyed a wee sensation where the company did prove kind
And when parting was no pleasure I drunk another measure
To the good friends that we treasure for you always are in my mind

If You're bent with arthritis Your bowels have got colitis
You've galloping' ballikites (sp?) and you're thinking' it's time you died
If you've been a man of action as you're lying there in traction
You will gain some satisfaction thinking," Jesus, At least I tried."

Sing it loud... sing it often!
^^^ {~`