| As I cruised out one eve-e-ning upon a night’s career
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| I spied a lofty clipper ship and to her I did steer
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| I heisted out my sig-a-nals which she so quickly knew
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| And when she saw my bunting fly she imme-diately hove to-woo-woo
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| (She had a dark and a-rovin' eye-uh-eye and her hair hung down in ring-a-lets)
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| (She was a nice girl, a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind)
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| I took her for some fish and chips and treated her so fine
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| And hardly did I realize she was the rovin' kind
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| I kissed her lips, I missed her lips and found to my surprise
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| She was nothin' but a pirate ship rigged up in a dis-guy-eye-ise
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| (She had a dark and a-rovin' eye-eye-eye)
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| And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets
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| (She was a nice girl, a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind)
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| So, come all ye good sailor men who sail the wintry sea
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| And come, all ye apprentice lads, a warnin' take from me
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| Beware of lofty clipper ships, they’ll be the ruin of you
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| For 'twas there she made me walk the plank and pushed me under, too-ooh-ooh
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| (She had a dark and a-rovin' eye-uh-eye and her hair hung down in ring-a-lets)
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| She was a nice girl, a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind
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| (She was a nice girl, a proper girl but)
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| One of the rovin' kind (yo-ho!) |