I Am A Rover- John Chapman (Som) 1906 Sharp

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.