Roving Kind Lyrics

Roving Kind lyrics

The Roving Kind
Guy Mitchell
Written by Jesse Cavanaugh and Arnold
Stanton

Peaked at # 4 in 1951
Competing versions by The Weavers hit #
11 and by Rex Allen hitt #20.
Adapted from the old 1800s English folk song
"The Pirate Ship."


(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!)