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A Rovin' I Will Go
Boys of the Isle
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I am sitting in this alehouse for five long days and nights,
Deciding to forget her and just get on with my life.
It is springtime in the valley. It is springtime in my head,
And if I can do no better than this, I might as well be dead.
My name it is O'Hara. I was twenty in the fall.
And there is my brother Kevin--well, we are not alike at all.
I will never be a bank clerk, nor week nobody's soul,
I will kiss my mother at the break of dawn, and a-roving I will go.
A-roving I will go. I am off to seek me a fortune.
I will dig for gold by day and in the nighttime, I will be courting.
A-roving I will go, from Dublin across to Boston,
And west to California, and back in five me wanted.
Sweet Mary was my sunshine. Sweet Mary was so true.
Sweet Mary dug my heart out, then she cut it right in two.
And now a voice is calling, as pure as falling snow:
"O'Hara, stop your bawling for a-roving you must go.
A-roving I will go. I am off to seek me a fortune.
I will dig for gold by day and in the nighttime, I will be courting.
A-roving I will go, from Dublin across to Boston,
And west to California, and back in five me wanted
Farewell to this old alehouse. Farewell to all my friends.
There is something new beginning, every time there is something else.
I will never leave completely, for in my heart you'll be.
When I return, I promise now that drinks will be on me.
A-roving I will go. I am off to seek me a fortune.
I will dig for gold by day and in the nighttime, I will be courting.
A-roving I will go, from Dublin across to Boston,
And west to California, and back in five me wanted
A-roving I will go. I am off to seek me a fortune.
I will dig for gold by day and in the nighttime, I will be courting.
A-roving I will go, from Dublin across to Boston,
And west to California... and back in five me wanted
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