Reg Meuross - As I Roved Out

As I roved out on a bright May morning

To view the meadows and the flowers gay

Whom should I spy but my own true lover

As she sat under the willow tree

I took off my hat and I did salute her

I did salute her most courageously

When she turned around, well the tears fell from her

Crying, "False young man, you have deluded me"

"A diamond ring that I owned I gave you

A diamond ring to wear on your right hand

But the vows you made, love, you went and broke them

And wed the lassie that had the land"

"If I married the lassie that had the land, my love

It's that I'll rue till the day I die

When misfortune falls, sure no man can shun it

I was blindfolded, I'll ne'er deny"

Now at nights when I go to my bed of sorrow

The thoughts of my true love run in my mind

When I turned around to embrace my darling

Instead of gold, sure it's brass I'll find

And I wish the Queen would call home her army

From the West Indies, Americay and Spain

And every man to his wedded woman

In hopes that you and I will meet again