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!)