The Roving Kind chords by The Weavers

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Verse 1
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As I  cruised out one
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evening upon a night's career
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I spied a lofty clipper ship
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and to her I  did steer
I heisted out my signals
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which she so quickly knew
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And when she saw my bunting fly she
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immediately hove to- woo- woo

Verse 2

She had a dark and rovin' eye,

and her hair hung down in ringlets

She was a nice girl,

a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind

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Verse 3
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Oh pardon me, she says to me,
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for being out so late
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But if my parents heard of this
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all sad would be my fate
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My father is in politics,
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a good and righteous man
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My mother is an acrobat,
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I do the best I can
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She had a

Verse 4

dark and rovin' eye,

and her hair hung down in ringlets

She was a nice girl, a proper girl but one of the rovin'

kind

Interlude 1

Verse 5
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I took her for some fish and chips
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and treated her so fine
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And hardly did I realize she
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was the rovin' kind
I kissed her lips,
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I missed her lips and found to my surprise
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She was nothin' but a pirate ship
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rigged up in a disguise

Verse 6

She had a dark and rovin' eye,

and her hair hung down in ringlets

She was a nice girl,

a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind

Verse 7
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So, come all you good sailor men
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who sail the wintry sea
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And come, all you apprentice lads,
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a warnin' take from me
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Beware of lofty clipper ships,
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they'll be the ruin of you
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For 'twas there she made me walk
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the plank and pushed me under, too
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She had a

Verse 8
C 
dark and rovin' eye- uh- eye
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and her hair hung down in ringlets
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She was a nice girl,
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a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind
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