Album Name : 20 Golden Irish Ballads, Vol. 2
Release Date : 2000-11-21
Song Duration : 4:18
Wolfe Tones I'm A Rover
Though the night be dark as dungeon, not a star to be
seen above
I will be guided without a stumble, into the arms of me
only love.
I went up to her bedroom window, kneeling gently upon a
stone
I rapped on her bedroom window "My darling dear, do you
lie alone"?
[Chorus:]
I'm a rover , seldom sober
I'm a rover of high degree
Ans when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
How to gain my 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".
[Chorus]
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".
