Ramblin Rover

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 rambling rover Frae Orkney down to Dover We will roam the country over And together we'll face the world There are many that seek enjoyment From merciless employment Their ambition this deployment From the minute they left the school And they save and scrape and ponder For the rest go out and squander See the world and rove and wander And they're happier as a rule 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 rambling rover Frae Orkney down to Dover We will roam the country over And together we'll face the world I have roamed through all the nations And delight in all creation I've enjoyed a wee sensation When the company did prove kind And when parting was no pleasure I drank another measure To the good friends that we treasure For they always are on our mind 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 rambling rover Frae Orkney down to Dover We will roam the country over And together we'll face the world If you're bent with arthritis And your bowels have got colitis You've galloping bollockitis And you're thinking it's time you'd died And you've been a man of action And you're lying there in traction You can gain some satisfaction Thinkin', "Jesus, at least I tried" 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 rambling rover Frae Orkney down to Dover We will roam the country over And together we'll face the world 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 rambling rover Frae Orkney down to Dover We will roam the country over And together we'll face the world