Folkaholics - i'm a rover lyrics

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<b>i'm a rover</b> by <i>Folkaholics</i><br />Though the night be as dark as dungeon

Not a star to be seen above

I will be guided without a stumble

Into the arms of my own true love.

He stepped up to her bedroom window

Kneeling gently upon a stone

He rapped at her bedroom window

"Darling dear, do you lie alone?"

I'm a rover and seldom sober,

I'm a rover of high degree,

It's when I'm drinking I'm always thinking

how to gain my love's company.

It's only me your own true lover

Open the door and let me in

For I have come on a long journey

And I am near drenched to the skin.

She opened the door with the greatest pleasure

She opened the door and she let him in

They both shook hands and embraced each other

Until the morning they lay as one.

I'm a rover and seldom sober,

I'm a rover of high degree,

It's when I'm drinking I'm always thinking

how to gain my love's company.

The cocks were crawning, the birds were whistling

The streams they ran free about the brae,

Remember lass, I'm a ploughman laddie,

And the farmer I must obey'.

Now my love, I must go and leave thee

And though the hills they are high above

I will climb them with greater pleasure,

Since I've been in the arms of my love.

I'm a rover and seldom sober,

I'm a rover of high degree,

It's when I'm drinking I'm always thinking

how to gain my love's company.

(c) Folkaholics (traditional)