As I roved out on a May morning
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On a May morning right early
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I met my love upon the way
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Oh, Lord but she was early
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And she sang lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle-dee,-
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And she hi-di-lan-di-dee, and she hi-di-lan-di-dee and she lan- day
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Her boots were black and her stockings white
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And her buckles shone like silver
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She had a dark and a rolling eye
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And her ear-rings tipped her shoulder
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"What age are you my bonny wee lass
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What age are you my honey?"
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Right modestly she answered me
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"I'll be seventeen on Sunday"
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"Where do you live my bonny wee lass
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Where do you live my honey?"
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"In a wee house up on the top of the hill
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And I live there with my mammy"
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"If I went to the house on the top of the hill
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When the moon was shining clearly
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Would you arise and let me in
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And your mammy not to hear you?"
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I went to the house on the top of the hill
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When the moon was shining clearly
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She arose to let me in
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But her mammy chanced to hear her
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She caught her by the hair of the head
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And down to the room she brought her
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And with the butt of a hazel twig
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She was the well-beat daughter
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"Will you marry me now my soldier lad
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Will you marry me now or never?
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Will you marry me now my soldier lad
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For you see I'm done forever"
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"I can't marry you my bonny wee lass
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I can't marry you my honey
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For I have got a wife at home
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And how could I disown her?"
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A pint at night is my delight
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And a gallon in the morning
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The old women are my heart break
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But the young ones is my darling
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As I Roved Out
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The Woods Band |