Origins: A-Rovin' I Will Go (Mills, Russell)

Subject: RE: Origins: A rovin I will go ............
From: GUEST,Miro
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 01:39 PM

I think it is convenient to make difference, using a prefix: Lyrics Request, Song Origins. Still on the subject Irish songs, the Forum
offers us a good example: Origins:Cumberland Road(04May02), Lyr Req:
Cumberland Road(26Aug08).By the way, both these requests remain unanswered or not quite answered. As someone interested in an answer, I seize the opportunity to ask our Irish friends to give a hand.

Subject: RE: Origins: A rovin I will go ............
From: GUEST,Miro
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 01:19 PM

Subject: Lyr Add: A-ROVIN' I WILL GO (Mills, Russell)
From: skarpi
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 03:23 AM

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.

(chorus 2x)

Subject: RE: Origins: A rovin I will go ............
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 11:51 PM

Didn't you post this song in 19 and 99? Thread 9683: A Rovin

(Please combine threads)

Subject: RE: Origins: A rovin I will go ............
From: GUEST,Miro
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 11:43 PM

Hi,skarpi. "A-rovin' I will go"is termed "traditional" on the album
"40 Irish Songs Everyone Ought to Know"(Primo),performed by The Original Irish Boys. In this album, as far as I know, only songs of Irish provenance are included.
Miro

Subject: RE: Origins: A rovin I will go ............
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 07:21 PM

Can you please give us a few more lines, skarpi? It sounds familiar, but I can't remember where from ...

Subject: Origins: A rovin I will go ............
From: skarpi
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 05:51 PM

Can some one tell me where this song is from ??
is it Irish or is it Irish/American ?

ATB skarpi