1. Oh there's many that feign enjoyment For merciless employment Their ambition was this deployment Since the minute they left the school They save and scrape and ponder While the rest go out and squander See the world, and rove and wander, And they're happier as a rule. 2. I've roamed thru all the nations, Ta'en delight in all creation And I've tried a wee sensation Where the company did prove kind And when parting was no pleasure, I've drunk another measure To the good friends that we treasure For they always are in our minds.

3. For the lassies young and sprightly, Them I courted nightly Where stayin' wasn't likely, For I ramble up and down; 'Cause life it would be hearty, I'd dance at every party, Meet ramblin' Dan McCarthy And we'll all go on the town! 4. If you're bent with arth-er-itis, Your bowels have got colitis You have gallopin' bollockitis And you're thinkin' it's time you died You've been a man of action Tho you're lyin' there in traction You may gain some satisfaction Sayin' "Jaysus, at least I tried!"

Refrain: Oh there's sober men in plenty, And drunkards barely twenty There are men of over ninety That have never yet kissed a girl But give me a ramblin' rover, And from Orkney down to Dover We will roam the country over And together will face the world!

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