Digital Tradition Mirror

A-Rovin' (1)

(This score available as ABC, SongWright, PostScript, PNG, or PMW, or a MIDI file)
Pennywhistle notation and Dulcimer tab for this song is also available

(alternate:)

(This score available as ABC, SongWright, PostScript, PNG, or PMW, or a MIDI file)
Pennywhistle notation and Dulcimer tab for this song is also available

A-Rovin' (1)

In Amsterdam there lived a Maid
     Mark well what I do say!
In Amsterdam there lived a maid
And she was mistress of her trade
     I'll go no more a-rovin' with you fair maid
     A-rovin', a-rovin', since rovin's been my ru-i-in
     I'll go no more a-rovin' with you fair maid

One night I crept from my abode
     Mark etc.
One night I crept from my abode
To meet this fair maid down the road
     I'll go etc.

I met this fair maid after dark
And took her to her favorite park.

I took this fair maid for a walk
And we had such a loving talk.

I put me arm around her waist
Sez she, "Young man, you're in great haste!"

I put my hand upon her knee
Sez she, "Young man you're rather free!"

I put my hand upon her thigh
Sez she, "Young man you're rather high!"

*

She sore that she'd be true to me
But spent me pay-day fast and free

In three weeks time I was badly bent
Then off to sea I sadly went.

In a bloodboat Yank bound round Cape Horn
Me boots and clothes were all in pawn

Bound up Cape Stiff through ice and snow
And up the coast to Cally-o

An' then back to the Liverpool Docks
Saltpeter stowed in our boots an' socks

Now when I got home from sea
A soger had her on his knee.

* I've omitted 7 of Hugill's rather clumsy attempts to
     sanitize the song. If you can't figure out how an
     "anatomical progression" works, you're
     beyond help. RG
From Shanties from the Seven Seas, Hugill
play.exe AROVIN.2
RG

Thanks to Mudcat for the Digital Tradition!