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16 Oct 07 - 11:45 PM (#2172717) Subject: Lyr Req: Andy M Stewart song From: GUEST,irishenglish Does anyone have the complete lyrics to Andy M.Stewart's Rambling Rover? I know most of it, but get a bit lost around the disease portion (bent with arthiritis, bowels have got colitis, etc.)! I have a bit of trouble sometimes with Andy's wonderful (but very Scots)accent! Thanks. |
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16 Oct 07 - 11:57 PM (#2172719) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Andy M Stewart song From: Emma B try this |
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16 Oct 07 - 11:59 PM (#2172722) Subject: Lyr Add: RAMBLIN' ROVER (Andy M. Stewart) From: Nerd RAMBLIN' ROVER (Andy M. Stewart) CHORUS There's sober men and plenty and drunkards barely twenty There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl But give me a ramblin' rover, frae Orkney down tae Dover We will roam the country over and together we'll face the world I have been throughout our nation ta'en delight in all creation I've enjoyed a wee sensation when the company did prove kind And when partin' was no pleasure, I've drunk another measure To the good friends that we treasure for they always are in wir minds chorus 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 we're happier as a rule Chorus When you're bent up with arthritis, your bowels have got colitis You've got gallopin' bollockitis and you're thinkin' it's time you died If you've been a man of action, but you're lyin' there in traction You can gain some satisfaction thinking "Jesus, at least I tried!" Chorus |
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17 Oct 07 - 07:03 AM (#2172849) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rambling Rover (Andy M Stewart) From: GUEST,irishenglish EmmaB, Nerd, thank you very much! I love that last verse! |
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17 Oct 07 - 07:24 AM (#2172859) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rambling Rover (Andy M Stewart) From: Seaking Sean Cannon does (or certainly used to) do a great version of this with the Dubliners. The lyrics are very clear on the CD recording. Chris |
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17 Oct 07 - 10:33 AM (#2172981) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rambling Rover (Andy M Stewart) From: GUEST,irishenglish Bob Fox did a version as well, and with Fairport on Cropredy Chronicles. As I said, I just didn't understand the galloping bollockitis bit. |
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17 Oct 07 - 10:43 AM (#2172984) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rambling Rover (Andy M Stewart) From: GUEST,Doc *Bollockitis -A mysterious aching pain in the right testicle that appears on and off for 6 months.* (According to the urban dictionary) Hope this helps, it was a simple enough google search. |
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11 Apr 12 - 01:46 PM (#3336809) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rambling Rover (Andy M Stewart) From: Joe_F Warning: whimsy & vulgar curiosity -- When I first heard this song, I was fooled by the multiple rhyme & galloping rhythm into thinking it was Irish -- despite the repeated mention of Orkney & Dover, which eventually clued me in. Indeed, it & its author are 100% Scottish. That, however, left a puzzle. My knowledge of the Christian religion is small, but somehow I have trouble imagining a Presbyterian saying "Jesus, at least I tried!". Does Mr Stewart perhaps belong to a Scottish *Catholic* family? (I once witnessed that phenomenon myself. Many years ago, while walking in -- I think it was -- Aberdeen with another young American tourist I had met at the station, we stopped in front of a brick edifice that the guidebook identified as a cathedral. I mused, "What does a cathedral mean in Scotland?" which brought a smile to the face of a priest who just happened to be passing.) Googling furiously, I found many mentions of a recent performance by him (at an Irish evening!) in a Catholic high school in Pittsburgh, PA. Not proven. |
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11 Apr 12 - 08:02 PM (#3337001) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rambling Rover (Andy M Stewart) From: Charley Noble I've been fascinated with the tune as well. Does anyone know if it is traditional or was it also composed by Andy M. Stewart? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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11 Apr 12 - 08:16 PM (#3337004) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rambling Rover (Andy M Stewart) From: Tattie Bogle According to his songbook, The Andy M Stewart Collection, he wrote the music as well. I like the "stage direction" to sing the song "joyfully"! Incidentally there are some minor differences in the words from what is posted above, but none that radically alter the sense of it; and also the second and third verses are interposed, but it may be that it varies from this written collection on the recordings. |