I'm A Rover
Words & Music:
Great Big Sea
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Though the night be as dark as
dungeon, not a star to be seen above.
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I will be guided without a
stumble, into the arms of me only love.
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I went up to her bedroom
window, kneeling gently upon a stone.
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I rapped on her bedroom window
"Me darlin' dear, do you lay alone"?
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I'm a rover, seldom sober.
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I'm a rover of high degree.
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And when I'm drinking, I'm
always thinking
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How to gain love's company.
She raised her head up from
her feather pillow, raised her arms up around her breast,
Saying "Who's at me
bedroom window, disturbing me at me long night's rest?
"It's only me, your own
true lover, open the door and please let me in.
For I have come on a long
night's journey. I am near drenched to the skin".
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She opened the door with the
greatest pleasure, opened the door and she let me in
We both shook hands and
embraced each other. 'Til the morning we lay as one.
"Well now me love, I must
go and leave you, though the mountains be high above
Well, I will climb them with
greater pleasure that I have been with me only love".
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