Rambling Rover Lyrics - Misc

Rambling Rover 

- from Silly Wizard 

- chorus: - 

Oh there's sober men & plenty 

And drunkards barely twenty 

There are men of over ninety 

That have never yet kissed a girl. 

But give me a rambling rover 

Fae Orkney down to Dover 

We will roam the country over 

And together we'll face the world. 

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. 

When parting was no pleasure 

I've drunk another measure 

To the good friends that we treasure 

For they always are in our mind. 

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 they're happier as a rule. 

If you're bent with arthritis 

Your bowels have got colitis 

You've galloping ballicitus 

And you're thinking it's time you died. 

If you've been a man of action 

While you're lying there in 

traction 

You may gain some satisfaction 

Thinking "Jesus, at least I've tried."