I've been a folksinger for bloody eight year
And I sing half the night for the fun and free beer
But now that I'm older I know the score
And I never will sing 'The Wild Rover' no more
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And it's no nay never, no nay never no more
Will I play 'The Wild Rover', nay never no more
I know it 's a song that pleases the folk
But I have to admit that it just makes me choke
A night with a tooth-ache is more fun to me
Than the singing of one verse, never mind two or three
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This song is requested again and again
If I'll hear it once more it will drive me insane
The words get so stupid, it just makes me wild
And the tune could be learned by a two year old child
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So I go to a folkclub, I take a shotgun along
And I shoot the first bastard who askes for this song
The hangman will say as I fall through the floor:
"You never will sing 'The Wild Rover' no more!"