I'm a rover, seldom sober
I'm a rover, o' high degree
And when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
How to gain my love's company

I'm a rover, seldom sober
I'm a rover, o' high degree
And when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
How to gain my love's company

Though the night be dark as dungeon
Not a star to be seen above
I will be guided without a stumble
Into the arms of my own true love

I stepped up to her bedroom window
Kneeling gently on a stone
I rapped at her bedroom-window
"Darling dear, do you lie alone?"

I'm a rover, seldom sober
I'm a rover, o' high degree
And when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
How to gain my love's company

She raised her head on her snow-white pillow
With her arms aboot her breast
"What is that at my bedroom window
Disturbing me at my long night's rest?"

"It's only me, your own true lover
Open the door and let me in
For I have come on a long journey
And I'm near drenched to the skin."

I'm a rover, seldom sober
I'm a rover, o' high degree
And when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
How to gain my love's company

She opened the door with the greatest pleasure
She opened the door and let me in
We both shook hands and embraced each other
Until the morning we lay as one

"O, my love, I must go and leave you
And climb the hills they're far above
I will climb with greater pleasure
In the arms of the one I love

 I'm a rover, seldom sober
I'm a rover, o' high degree
And when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking
How to gain my love's company