The Dubliners – Im A Rover (Guitar)

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I'm a Rover – Dubliners Tab'd by wompton [CHORUS]
G               C        G
I'm a rover and seldom sober

                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree

              G                    C   G
It's when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking

G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company
[VERSE 1]
G                   C          G
Though the night be dark as dungeon

                       D 
No' a star can be seen above,

          G                C   G
I will be guided without a stumble

G                   D        G
Into the arms o' my own true love
[CHORUS]
G               C        G
I'm a rover and seldom sober

                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree

              G                    C   G
It's when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking

G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company
[VERSE 2]
G                    C          G 
He stepped up to her bedroom window,

                       D 
Kneelin' gently upon a stone

             G                   C  G
He whispered through her bedroom-window

G                        D     G
"My Darlin' dear, do you lie alone?"
[CHORUS]
G               C        G
I'm a rover and seldom sober

                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree

              G                    C   G
It's when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking

G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company
[VERSE 3]
G                            C             G 
She raised her head from her down-white pillow

                           D 
Through her arms about her breast,

            G                  C  G
"say who is that at my bedroom window

G                   D            G
Disturbin' me at my long night's rest?"
[CHORUS]
G               C        G
I'm a rover and seldom sober

                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree

              G                    C   G
It's when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking

G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company
[VERSE 4]
           G              C          G
"Says I my love it's, thy own true lover,

                         D 
Open the door and let me in.

           G                     C  G
For I have come on a long nights journey,

G                     D      G
And I'm near drenched to the skin."
[CHORUS]
G               C        G
I'm a rover and seldom sober

                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree

              G                    C   G
It's when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking

G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company
[VERSE 5]
               G             C            G 
She opened the door with the greatest pleasure,

                                    D 
She opened the door and she let him in,

                 G                       C  G
They baith shook hands and embraced each other

  G                    D      G
Until the mornin' they lay as one
[CHORUS]
G               C        G
I'm a rover and seldom sober

                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree

              G                    C   G
It's when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking

G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company
[VERSE 6]
G                           C               G
The cocks were crowin', the birds were whistlin'

                                  D 
The burns they ran free abune the brae

           G           C            G
"Says I my lass, I'm a ploughman laddie

G                D     G
And the farmer I must obey."
[CHORUS]
G               C        G
I'm a rover and seldom sober

                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree

              G                    C   G
It's when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking

G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company
[VERSE 7]
G                      C            G
Says I my love, I must go and leave you

                                  D 
And climb the hills they are far above,

           G                       C   G
But I will climb with the greatest pleasure

G                   D          G
Since I been in the arms o' my love.
[CHORUS]
G               C        G
I'm a rover and seldom sober

                       D
I'm a rover, o' high degree

              G                    C   G
It's when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking

G                     D   G
How to gain my love's company