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 Butone 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 Butone 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 Butone 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 Mewalk 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 Butone Of The Rovin' Kind

(She Was A Nice Girl, A Proper Girl But)
one Of The Rovin' Kind (Yo-Ho!)