Interesting Facts about the A-Rovin’ (D)
The following version of the A-Rovin’ (D) according to Stan Hugill’s Book is given only by Terry and Sharp, and is probably the older one – it has the jerkiness of all shanties which were sung at the earlier brake-pumps and lever windlasses.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the pump shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 50, 51).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 50, 51).
The Record of the A-Rovin’ (D)
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The musical notation
The full lyrics
A-Rovin’ ( D ) – Pump Shanty
In Amsterdam there lived a maid
– Bless you young women!
In Amsterdam there lived a maid
– Now mind what I do say!
In Amsterdam there lived a maid
An’ she was mistress of her trade
– I’ll go no more a-rovin’ with you fair maid
– A-rovin’, a-rovin’, since rovin’s bin me ru-i-in
– I’ll go no more a-rovin’ with you fair maid
* 2 *
I took this fair maid for a walk.
– Bless you, young women!
I took this fair maid for a walk.
– Now mind what I do say!
I took this fair maid for a walk,
An’ we had such a lovin’ talk.
– I’ll go no more, etc.
* 3 *
An’ didn’t I tell her stories true,
Of the gold we found in Timbuctoo.
* 4 *
But when she’d spent me bloomin’ screw,
She cut her cable an’ vanished too.
* 5 – Other stanzas with a genuine ring are: *
I met her walking on the Strand,
Dressed up for to beat the band.
* 6 *
In Number One New England Square,
Me Nancy Dawson she lives there.
* 7 *
This last ten months I’ve bin to sea,
Ah’ hell, this gal looked good to me.