I Am A Rover- John Chapman (Som) 1906 Sharp
[Single stanza with music from Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/10/1144)
R. Matteson 2017]
I Am A Rover - sung by John Chapman of Dunster Somerset on September 12, 1906, collected Sharp
I am a rover and that's well known
And now I am going for to leave my home;
Leaving my dearest dear behind,
Which oftimes told me her heart was mine.