Ramblin' Rover

There are sober men a plenty

And drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety

And who have never yet kissed a girl

Give me a ramblin' rover

From Orkney down to Dover

We’ll roam the country over

And together we'll face the world

There are those who feign enjoyment

From merciless employment

Their ambition was this deployment

Since the minute they left the school

They scrape and save and ponder

While the rest go off and squander

See the world and rove and wander

And are they’re happier as a rule

There are sober men a plenty

And drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety

And who have never yet kissed a girl

Give me a ramblin' rover

From Orkney down to Dover

We’ll roam the country over

And together we'll face the world

I've roamed through all the nations

Took enjoyment from creation

I’ve enjoyed a wee sensation

Where the company did in kind

And when parting was no pleasure

I've drank another measure

To the good friends we all treasure

For they always are on their minds

There are sober men a plenty

And drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety

And who have never yet kissed a girl

Give me a ramblin' rover

From Orkney down to Dover

We’ll roam the country over

And together we'll face the world

When you're bent with arthiritis

Your bowels have got colitis

You've gallopin' bollockitis

And you're thinkin' it's time you died

You’ve been a man of action

You're lying there in traction

Can take some satisfaction

Singing Jeepers, at least I tried

There are sober men a plenty

And drunkards barely twenty

There are men of over ninety

And who have never yet kissed a girl

Give me a ramblin' rover

From Orkney down to Dover

We’ll roam the country over

And together we'll face the world