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After the Clancy Brothers version
Chorus 2X, Last time acapella

    As I Roved Out by Clancys

    by trad
    As [Am] I Roved out on a [Em] May morning
    on a [Am] may morning right [Em] early
    I [C] met me love up- [G] on the way
    Oh, [Am] Lord but [Em] she was [Am] early

    (Chorus:
    And she sang
    [C] Lithadoo, a lithadoo, a lithadoodle [G] lee
    and she [C] hydle upa [G] dee and she [C] hydle on the [Em] dee
    and she [Am] landy)

    Her boots were black and her stockings were white
    and her buckles shown like silver
    she had a dark and a rolling eye
    and her earrings tipped her shoulder

    Chorus

    What age are you me bonny me lass?
    what age are you me honey?
    Quite modestly she answered me
    “I’ll be seventeen on Sunday”

    Chorus

    Where do you live me bonny me lass?
    where do you live me honey?
    In a wee little house at the top of the hill
    and I live there with me mommy.

    Chorus

    If I went up to the top of the hill
    when the moon was shining clearly
    Would you arise to let me in
    and your mommy not to hear ya?

    Chorus

    So I went up to the top of the hill
    when the moon was shining clearly
    and she arose to let me in
    but her mommy chanced to her her

    Chorus

    She caught her by the hair of her head
    and to the room she brought her
    With the butt of a hazel twig
    she was the well-beat daughter

    Chorus

    Will you marry me now, me soldier lad?
    Will you marry me now or never?
    Will you marry me now, me soldier lad?
    Or will ye see me none forever?

    Chorus

    I can’t marry you me bonny me lass
    I can’t marry you me honey
    For I have got a wife at home
    and how could I disown her?

    Chorus

    A pint at night is my delight
    and a gallon in the morning
    The old women are my heartbreak
    and the young ones is me darling