A Rambling Rover

Rambling Rover - THE DUBLINERS

Oh there's sober men & plenty

And drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety

That have never yet kissed a girl

But give me a rambling rover

Fae Orkney down to Dover

We will roam the country over

And together we'll face the world

There's many that 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 they're happier as a rule

There's sober men & plenty

And drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety

That have never yet kissed a girl

But give me a rambling rover

Fae Orkney down to Dover

We will roam the country over

And together we'll face the world

I've roamed through all the nations

Ta'en delight in all creation

And I've tried a wee sensation

Where the company did prove kind

When parting was no pleasure

I've drunk another measure

To the good friends that we treasure

For they always are in our mind

There's sober men & plenty

And drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety

That have never yet kissed a girl

But give me a rambling rover

Fae Orkney down to Dover

We will roam the country over

And together we'll face the world

If you're bent with arthritis

Your bowels have got colitis

You've galloping ballicitus

And you're thinking it's time you died

If you've been a man of action

While you're lying there in traction

You may gain some satisfaction

Thinking "Jesus at least I've tried

There's sober men & plenty

And drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety

That have never yet kissed a girl

But give me a rambling rover

Fae Orkney down to Dover

We will roam the country over

And together we'll face the world

There's sober men & plenty

And drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety

That have never yet kissed a girl

But give me a rambling rover

Fae Orkney down to Dover

We will roam the country over

And together we'll face the world