As I Roved Out

Source: Where The Linnets Sings (2026)

Location: Track 4

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As I roved out on a bright May morning

To view the meadows and flowers gay,

Whom should I spy but my own true lover as

She sat under yon willow tree.

I took off my hat and I did salute her,

I did salute her most courageously.

When she turned around and the tears fell from her saying:

‘False young man you have deluded me.’

‘For to delude you, how can that be my love?

It’s from you body I am quite free.

I’m as free from you as the child unborn is and

So are you too, dear Jane from me.’

‘Three-diamond ring sure I own I gave you

Three-diamond ring to wear on your right hand.’

‘But the vows you made love you went and broke them and

Married the lassie who had the land.’

‘If I married the lassie that had the land, my love,

It’s that I’ll rue until the day I die.

Where misfortune falls sure no man can shun it, I

Was blindfolded I’ll ne’er deny.’

Now at night when I go to my bed of slumber

The thoughts of my true love run in my mind.

When I turn around to embrace my darling, In-

Stead of gold sure it’s brass I find.

And I wish the queen would call home her armies

From the West Indies, America and Spain.

And every man to his wedded woman in

Hopes that you and I would meet again.

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