I am a Rover- Mary Anne Cole (Som) 1906 Sharp

I am a Rover- Mary Anne Cole (Som) 1906 Sharp

[From Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/10/968)

R. Matteson 2017]


I am a Rover
- sung by Mary Anne Cole of Cannington, Somerset on 7 August, 1906. Collected by Cecil J. Sharp.

I am a rover and that's well known
I'm just about for to leave my home
Leaving my home and my friends to mourn
Fare well bonny girl till I do return.