Im A Rover

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I'm a rover and seldom sober
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I'm a rover, o' high degree
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It’s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
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How to gain my love's company


[VERSE 1]
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Though the night be dark as dungeon
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No' a star can be seen above,
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I will be guided without a stumble
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Into the arms o' my own true love


[CHORUS]
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I'm a rover and seldom sober
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I'm a rover, o' high degree
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It’s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
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How to gain my love's company


[VERSE 2]
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He stepped up to her bedroom window,
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Kneelin' gently upon a stone
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He whispered through her bedroom-window
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"My Darlin' dear, do you lie alone?"


[CHORUS]
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I'm a rover and seldom sober
                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree
              G                    C   G
It’s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
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How to gain my love's company


[VERSE 3]
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She raised her head from her down-white pillow
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Through her arms about her breast,
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"say who is that at my bedroom window
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Disturbin' me at my long night's rest?"


[CHORUS]
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I'm a rover and seldom sober
                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree
              G                    C   G
It’s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company


[VERSE 4]
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“Says I my love it’s, thy own true lover,
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Open the door and let me in.
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For I have come on a long nights journey,
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And I'm near drenched to the skin."


[CHORUS]
G               C        G
I'm a rover and seldom sober
                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree
              G                    C   G
It’s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company


[VERSE 5]
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She opened the door with the greatest pleasure,
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She opened the door and she let him in,
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They baith shook hands and embraced each other
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Until the mornin' they lay as one


[CHORUS]
G               C        G
I'm a rover and seldom sober
                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree
              G                    C   G
It’s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company


[VERSE 6]
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The cocks were crowin', the birds were whistlin'
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The burns they ran free abune the brae
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"Says I my lass, I'm a ploughman laddie
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And the farmer I must obey."


[CHORUS]
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I'm a rover and seldom sober
                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree
              G                    C   G
It’s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company


[VERSE 7]
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Says I my love, I must go and leave you
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And climb the hills they are far above,
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But I will climb with the greatest pleasure
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Since I been in the arms o' my love.


[CHORUS]
G               C        G
I'm a rover and seldom sober
                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree
              G                    C   G
It’s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company