The Roving Kind 1950

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 17 April 2012
2012

She had a dark and a roving eye
and her hair hung down in ringalets,
She was a nice girl, a proper girl
but one of the roving kind.

As I cruised out one evening
upon a night's career,
I spied a lofty clipper ship
and to her I did steer,
I histed out my siganals
which she so quickly knew,
And when she saw my bunting fly
she immediately hove to.

She had a dark and a roving eye
and her hair hung down in ringalets,
She was a nice girl, a proper girl
but one of the roving kind.

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

She had a dark and a roving eye
and her hair hung down in ringalets,
She was a nice girl, a proper girl
but one of the roving kind.

I took her for some fish and chips
and treated her so fine,
and hardly did I realize
she was the roving kind,
I kissed her lips,
I missed her lips,
and found to my surprise
She was nothing but a pirate ship
rigged up in a disguise.

She had a dark and a roving eye
and her hair hung down in ringalets,
She was a nice girl, a proper girl
but one of the roving kind.

So come all you good sailormen
who sail the wint'ry sea,
and come all you apprentice lads,
a warning take from me.
Beware of lofty clipper ships,
they'll be the ruin of you,
For 'twas there
she made me walk the plank
and pushed me under too.

She had a dark and a roving eye
and her hair hung down in ringalets,
She was a nice girl, a proper girl
but one of the roving kind.

Soft karaoke
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lyric
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The Roving Kind 1950
by Jessie Cavanaugh & Arnold Stanton
© 1950 by Hollis Music Inc. New York, U.S.A.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 17 April 2012 at 17.36
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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Featured and Broadcast in U.K. by Billy Cotton and His Band
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