Name: Wild Rover
Channel: words and music traditional
Description: License options are available for this song. Another great sing-along at Renaissance festivals or Celidhs. Every popular with artists like The Dubliners, The Clancy Brothers and us.

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Another great sing-along at Renaissance festivals or Celidhs. Every popular with artists like The Dubliners, The Clancy Brothers and us.

mandolin autoharp recorde

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Brobdingnagian Bards

The Original Celtic Renaissance duo from Austin, TX! Called Masters of Traditional Folk by The Austin Chronicle, Marc Gunn and Andrew McKee join the autoharp, r

We are the Brobdingnagian Bards (pronounced brAHb'ding-näg-EE-en). We perform a unique style of Celtic folk music that we like to call "a Renaissance in Celtic music" or "The Original Celtic Renaissance. Ask our fans though, and they'll tell you our music is just plain "fun!" With six studio albums completed in just five years, combined with ten other compilations, singles and EPs, we've been called one of the most-productive Celtic groups around. But we just love playing the music.

Song Info

Genre

World • Traditional Irish

Charts

Peak #171

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

words and music traditional

Rights

Gunn-McKee

Uploaded

March 11, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.4 MB • 192 kbps • 2:30

Lyrics

I've been a wild rover for many a year,
And I spent all my money on whiskey and beer,
But now I've returned with gold in great store,
And I never will play the wild rover no more.

    And it's no, nay, never
    No, nay, never, no more,
    Will I play the rover
    No never, no more. 

I went down to an ale house I used to frequent,
And I told the landlady my money was spent.
I asked her for credit, but she answered me "Nay.
Such custom like yours I could have any day."

I took from my pocket ten sovereigns bright,
And the landlady's eyes opened wide with delight,
She said, "I have whiskeys and wines of the best,
And I'll take you upstairs, and I'll show you the rest.

I'll go home to my parents, confess what I've done,
And I'll ask them to pardon their prodigal son.
And if they caress me as oft times before,
I never will play the wild rover no more!

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