I'm A Rover chords by The Dubliners

Chords with lyrics

I?m a Rover ? Dubliners
Tab?d by wompton

Capo on 2nd fret

CHORUS:
G+G        C majorC    G+G
I'm a rover and seldom sober
            D MajorD
I'm a rover, o' high degree
       G+G          C majorC  G+G
It?s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G+G           D MajorD  G+G
How to gain my love's company

VERSE 1:
G+G          C majorC     G+G
Though the night be dark as dungeon
            D MajorD
No' a star can be seen above,
     G+G        C majorC  G+G
I will be guided without a stumble
G+G          D MajorD    G+G
Into the arms o' my own true love


CHORUS:
G+G        C majorC    G+G
I'm a rover and seldom sober
            D MajorD
I'm a rover, o' high degree
       G+G          C majorC  G+G
It?s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G+G           D MajorD  G+G
How to gain my love's company


VERSE 2:
G+G          C majorC     G+G
He stepped up to her bedroom window,
            D MajorD
Kneelin' gently upon a stone
       G+G          C majorC G+G
He whispered through her bedroom-window
G+G            D MajorD   G+G
"My Darlin' dear, do you lie alone?"


CHORUS:
G+G        C majorC    G+G
I'm a rover and seldom sober
            D MajorD
I'm a rover, o' high degree
       G+G          C majorC  G+G
It?s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G+G           D MajorD  G+G
How to gain my love's company

VERSE 3:
G+G              C majorC       G+G
She raised her head from her down-white pillow
              D MajorD
Through her arms about her breast,
      G+G         C majorC G+G
"say who is that at my bedroom window
G+G          D MajorD      G+G
Disturbin' me at my long night's rest?"


CHORUS:
G+G        C majorC    G+G
I'm a rover and seldom sober
            D MajorD
I'm a rover, o' high degree
       G+G          C majorC  G+G
It?s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G+G           D MajorD  G+G
How to gain my love's company


VERSE 4:
      G+G       C majorC     G+G
?Says I my love it?s, thy own true lover,
             D MajorD
Open the door and let me in.
      G+G           C majorC G+G
For I have come on a long nights journey,
G+G           D MajorD   G+G
And I'm near drenched to the skin."


CHORUS:
G+G        C majorC    G+G
I'm a rover and seldom sober
            D MajorD
I'm a rover, o' high degree
       G+G          C majorC  G+G
It?s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G+G           D MajorD  G+G
How to gain my love's company


VERSE 5:
        G+G       C majorC      G+G
She opened the door with the greatest pleasure,
                  D MajorD
She opened the door and she let him in,
         G+G            C majorC G+G
They baith shook hands and embraced each other
 G+G          D MajorD   G+G
Until the mornin' they lay as one


CHORUS:
G+G        C majorC    G+G
I'm a rover and seldom sober
            D MajorD
I'm a rover, o' high degree
       G+G          C majorC  G+G
It?s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G+G           D MajorD  G+G
How to gain my love's company


VERSE 6:
G+G              C majorC        G+G
The cocks were crowin', the birds were whistlin'
                 D MajorD
The burns they ran free abune the brae
      G+G      C majorC      G+G
"Says I my lass, I'm a ploughman laddie
G+G        D MajorD   G+G
And the farmer I must obey."


CHORUS:
G+G        C majorC    G+G
I'm a rover and seldom sober
            D MajorD
I'm a rover, o' high degree
       G+G          C majorC  G+G
It?s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G+G           D MajorD  G+G
How to gain my love's company


VERSE 7:
G+G           C majorC      G+G
Says I my love, I must go and leave you
                 D MajorD
And climb the hills they are far above,
      G+G            C majorC  G+G
But I will climb with the greatest pleasure
G+G          D MajorD     G+G
Since I been in the arms o' my love.


CHORUS:
G+G        C majorC    G+G
I'm a rover and seldom sober
            D MajorD
I'm a rover, o' high degree
       G+G          C majorC  G+G
It?s when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
G+G           D MajorD  G+G
How to gain my love's company