As I Roved Out lyrics

As I roved out, on a bright May morning,

To view the meadows and flowers gay

Whom should I spy but my own true lover

As she sat under yon willow tree.

“A diamond ring I own I gave you,

A diamond ring to wear on your right hand”

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

And married the lassie that had the land.”

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

It’s that I’ll rue… Until the day I die

When misfortune falls, no man can shun it

I was a blindfolded, I’ll ne’er deny.”

Now at nights when I go to my bed of slumber

The thoughts of my true love run in my mind

When I turn around to embrace my darling

Instead of gold, it is brass I find.

And I wish the Queen would call home her army,

From the West Indies, Amerikay and Spain

And every man to his wedded woman

In hopes that you and I will meet again.