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The Roving Kind

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The Roving Kind

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(She had a dark and a-rovin' eye-uh-eye and her hair hung down in ring-a-lets)

(She was a nice girl, a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind)

As I cruised out one eve-e-ning upon a night's career

I spied a lofty clipper ship and to her I did steer

I heisted out my sig-a-nals which she so quickly knew

And when she saw my bunting fly she imme-diately hove to-woo-woo

(She had a dark and a-rovin' eye-uh-eye and her hair hung down in ring-a-lets)

(She was a nice girl, a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind)

I took her for some fish and chips and treated her so fine

And hardly did I realize she was the rovin' kind

I kissed her lips, I missed her lips and found to my surprise

She was nothin' but a pirate ship rigged up in a dis-guy-eye-ise

(She had a dark and a-rovin' eye-eye-eye)

And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets

(She was a nice girl, a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind)

So, come all ye good sailor men who sail the wintry sea

And come, all ye apprentice lads, a warnin' take from me

Beware of lofty clipper ships, they'll be the ruin of you

For 'twas there she made me walk the plank and pushed me under, too-ooh-ooh

(She had a dark and a-rovin' eye-uh-eye and her hair hung down in ring-a-lets)

She was a nice girl, a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind

(She was a nice girl, a proper girl but)

One of the rovin' kind (yo-ho!)

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