[Verse 1]
As I was a walking to Tetbury Fair
With smart hat and waist coat I'd rather to ware
To meet all the young girls, raining that day
Well, I swore I was living to ramble away

[Verse 2]
The very first steps I took to the fair
I saw pretty Nancy a-combing her hair
I tipped her the wink, she roll'd her black eye.
Said aye to myself, "I'll be there by and by."

[Verse 3]
The very first step that I took in the dark
I took this girl Nancy to be my sweetheart
She smiled in my face and these words she did say:
"Are you the young man they call Rambleaway?"

[Verse 4]
I said, Pretty Nancy, don't smile in my face
For I do not intend to stay long in this place
She packed her fur coat and she followed her dear
She'd left all her troubles, she did't care where

[Verse 5]
They rambled the country from Mid-West to town
This Nancy, she followed her true love around
He swore from the start, he'd be faithfull and true
And the very next town, well he gave her the due

[Verse 6]
Well, the autumn has passed, winter moves on a pace
And pretty girl Nancy grew stout on her waist
Her dress wouldn't fit her and her shoes weren't paced
And she longed for the sight of young Rambleaway

[Verse 7]
She cursed his dark eye and his long curly hair
She was alide to fall down with a grinds of dispare
She was sick in the morning and sick in the day
Now see what you've done with your Rambleaway

[Verse 8]
Now the autumn has passed and the winter has come
And pretty girl Nancy, she's had a fine son
She kissed him and cuddled him, he's where he would be save
Don't be like your father, don't ramble away

[Verse 9]
As I was a walking to Tetbury Fair
In demin and leather and pony tailed hair
I thought of my mother, what she did say
I still have the notion to ramble away


[Verse 10]
The very next step that I took to the fair....