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The Ramblin Rover lyrics
Oh, there re sober men in plenty,
And drunkards barely twenty,
There are men of over ninety
That have never yet kissed a girl.
But gie me a ramblin rover,
And 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 are happier as a rule.

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.
And when partin was no pleasure,
I ve drunk another measure
To the good friends that were treasure
For they always are in our minds.

If you re bent wi arth-i-ritis,
Your bowels have got colitis,
You ve gallopin with bollockitis
And you re thinkin it s time you died,
If you been a man of action,
Though you re lying there in traction,
You will get some satisfaction
Thinkin , "Jesus, at least I tried."
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