The Ramblin' Rover

Oh there's sober men and plenty

Drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl

But give me a ramblin' rover

Frae Orkney down to Dover

We'll roam the country over and together we'll face the world

I have roamed through all the nations

In delight of all creations

Enjoyed a wee sensation with a company that was kind

But when partin' was no pleasure

I've drunk another measure

To the good friends that we treasure for they always are in our minds

Oh there's sober men and plenty

Drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl

But give me a ramblin' rover

Frae Orkney down to Dover

We'll roam the country over and together we'll face the world

There are many that feign enjoyment

From merciless employment

Their ambition was this deployment from the minute they left the school

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

Oh there's sober men and plenty

Drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl

But give me a ramblin' rover

Frae Orkney down to Dover

We'll roam the country over and together we'll face the world

If you're bent with arthritis

Your bowels have got colitis

You've gallopin' bollockitis and you're thinkin' it's time you died

You've been a man of action

Though you're lying there in traction

You may get some satisfaction thinkin', Jesus at least I tried

Oh there's sober men and plenty

Drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl

But give me a ramblin' rover

Frae Orkney down to Dover

We'll roam the country over and together we'll face the world

Oh there's sober men and plenty

Drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety who have never yet kissed a girl

But give me a ramblin' rover

Frae Orkney down to Dover

We'll roam the country over and together we'll face the world

We'll roam the country over and together we'll face the world