I'm A Rover Chords by The Dubliners

I'm A Rover chords by The Dubliners

Guitar chords with lyrics

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

Capo on 2nd fret

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

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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

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