Songtexte
The
Roving
Kind
Guy
Mitchell
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!)
1 Pretty Little Black Eyed Susie
2 The Roving Kind
3 Go Tiger Go
4 Look At That Girl
5 Rock-A-Billy
6 There's a Pawnshop On a Corner In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
7 We Won't Live In a Castle
8 My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You
9 Sparrow in the Treetop
10 Hannah Lee
11 Man And Woman
12 Sippin' Soda
13 Unless
14 Cure For the Blues
15 My Heart Cries For You
16 To Me Your a Song
17 Heartaches By The Number
18 A Dime and a Dollar
19 Knee Deep In The Blues
20 The Cuff Of My Shirt
21 Cuff Of My Shirt
22 Christopher Columbus
23 Pat Him On the Po Po
24 She Wears Red Feathers
25 Honey Brown Eyes
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