The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - As I Roved Out Lyrics

Lyrics As I Roved Out - Tommy Makem , The Clancy Brothers



As I roved out on a May morning
On a May morning right early
I met my love upon the way
Oh, Lord but she was early
And she sang lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle-dee,-
And she hi-di-lan-di-dee, and she hi-di-lan-di-dee and she lan- day
Her boots were black and her stockings white
And her buckles shone like silver
She had a dark and a rolling eye
And her ear-rings tipped her shoulder
And she sang lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle-dee,-
And she hi-di-lan-di-dee, and she hi-di-lan-di-dee and she lan- day
"What age are you my bonny wee lass
What age are you my honey?"
Right modestly she answered me
"I'll be seventeen on Sunday"
And she sang lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle-dee,-
And she hi-di-lan-di-dee, and she hi-di-lan-di-dee and she lan- day
"Where do you live my bonny wee lass
Where do you live my honey?"
"In a wee house up on the top of the hill
And I live there with my mammy"
And she sang lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle-dee,-
And she hi-di-lan-di-dee, and she hi-di-lan-di-dee and she lan- day
"If I went to the house on the top of the hill
When the moon was shining clearly
Would you arise and let me in
And your mammy not to hear you?"
And she sang lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle-dee,-
And she hi-di-lan-di-dee, and she hi-di-lan-di-dee and she lan- day
I went to the house on the top of the hill
When the moon was shining clearly
She arose to let me in
But her mammy chanced to hear her
And she sang lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle-dee,-
And she hi-di-lan-di-dee, and she hi-di-lan-di-dee and she lan- day
She caught her by the hair of the head
And down to the room she brought her
And with the butt of a hazel twig
She was the well-beat daughter
And she sang lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle-dee,-
And she hi-di-lan-di-dee, and she hi-di-lan-di-dee and she lan- day
"Will you marry me now my soldier lad
Will you marry me now or never?
Will you marry me now my soldier lad
For you see I'm done forever"
And she sang lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle-dee,-
And she hi-di-lan-di-dee, and she hi-di-lan-di-dee and she lan- day
"I can't marry you my bonny wee lass
I can't marry you my honey
For I have got a wife at home
And how could I disown her?"
And she sang lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle-dee,-
And she hi-di-lan-di-dee, and she hi-di-lan-di-dee and she lan- day
A pint at night is my delight
And a gallon in the morning
The old women are my heart break
But the young ones is my darling
And she sang lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle, lilt-a-doodle-dee,-
And she hi-di-lan-di-dee, and she hi-di-lan-di-dee and she lan- day



Writer(s): Traditional, T. Makem, Clancy Brothers


The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - The Folk Collection 1955-1962
Album The Folk Collection 1955-1962
date of release
04-04-2014

1 God Bless England (Live)
2 The Cobbler
3 Mr Moses Ri-Tooral-I-Ay (Live)
4 Johnny, I Hardly Knew You (Live)
5 Bold O Donahue
6 I'll Tell My Ma
7 Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go
8 Rothsea O
9 Marie's Wedding
10 Singin' Bird
11 Holy Ground
12 South Australia
13 As I Roved Out
14 Mcpherson's Lament
15 The Wild Colonial Boy
16 Shoals of Herring
17 I Know Who Is Sick
18 Old Woman from Wexford
19 The Little Beggerman
20 The Butcher Boy
21 Blow Ya Winds
22 The Month Of January
23 The Lowlands Of Holland
24 Kitty Magee
25 As I Roved Out
26 The Foggy Dew
27 Mrs. McGrath
28 Bold O'Donahue
29 The Connemara Cradle Song
30 The Irish Rover
31 The Moonshiner (Live)
32 The Whistling Gypsy (Live)
33 My Johnny Lad (Live)
34 The Work of the Weavers (Live)
35 The Old Orange Flute (Live)
36 Brennan on the Moor (Live)
37 Tim Finnegan's Wake (Live)
38 Port Lairge (Live)
39 Haul Away Joe (Live)
40 Young Roddy Mccorley (Live)
41 A Jug of Punch (Live)
42 Reilly's Daughter (Live)
43 O Donnell Aboo
44 The Croppy Boy
45 The Rising Of The Moon
46 The Foggy Dew
47 The Minstrel Boy
48 The Wind That Shakes the Barley
49 Tipperary Far Away
50 Kelly the Boy from Killanne
51 Kevin Barry
52 Whack Fol the Diddle
53 The Men of the West
54 Eamonn an Chnoic
55 Nell Flaherty's Drake
56 Boulavogue
57 Whiskey You're the Devil
58 The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
59 The Moonshiner
60 Bold Thady Quill
61 Rosin the Bow
62 Finnegan's Wake
63 The Real Old Mountain Dew
64 Courting in the Kitchen
65 Mick McGuire
66 A Jug of Punch
67 Johnny McEldoo
68 Cruiscin Lan
69 Portlairge
70 The Parting Glass
71 Rennan On the Moor
72 The Work of the Weavers
73 The Stuttering Lovers
74 Paddy Doyle's Boots
75 The Maid of Fife-E-O
76 The Bard of Armagh
77 The Jug of Punch
78 Roddy McCorley
79 The Barnyards of Delgaty
80 The Castle of Dromore
81 The Bold Tennant Farmer
82 Ballinderry
83 Bungle Rye
84 Eileen Aroon
85 Johnny I Hardly Knew You
86 The Irish Rover (Live)
87 The Barnyards of Delgaty (Live)
88 October Winds (Live)
89 Courting in the Kitchen (Live)
90 The Jolly Tinker (Live)
91 Jug of This (Live)
92 Johnny Mceldoo (Live)
93 Whiskey, You're the Devil (Live)
94 Mountain Dew (Live)
95 When I Was Single (Live)
96 The 23rd of June (Live)




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