The Mild Rover

The Mild Rover

The Mild Rover appears on the Sid Kipper album Boiled In The Bag

I've been a mild rover for many's a year,

And I've spent all my money on warm ginger beer.

But now I am turning, like worms have before,

And I never will play the mild rover no more,

And it's no, nay, never, no nay never no more,

Will I play the mild rover, no never no more.

I went into an alehouse I used to frequent,

And I told the landlady me money was spent.

I asked her for credit, she answered me "Yes -

I've seen this done before, now get out your largesse".

I put me hand in me pocket, pulled out what I'd got,

And the landlady's eyes opened wide with the shock.

She said "Where's the money?" - "But I thought you knew;

I told you I'd none in verse one and verse two".

I'll go home to my family, tell them what I did,

And ask them to lend me a couple of quid.

For I can see clear that I've misspent my youth,

From now on I'll be jolly rough and uncooth.

Now I will go wild, to the pub I will stray -

If they ask me to leave I won't go straight away;

I'll stay up past my bedtime, get loose women tight,

I will be a wild rover - well, I think, p'rhaps, I might.