Roaring Jack - Ways Of A Rover lyrics

I've travelled east, I've travelled west And I've been south of the border Seldom sober, often drunk And sometimes out of order Sometimes I've been true to love And sometimes I've betrayed it But when it's time to cop my whack Then I've coughed up and paid it And I swore by the light of the morning sun My drinking days were over That very night I was back in town Following the ways of a rover When we toast for auld lang syne Friends absent or departed I'll drink to my own true love Though she was fickle hearted Then lay me down with another girl Wi' a headfu' o' wine and brandy Who gives a nutse for the cutty stool It's a' for houghmagandie, I swore by the light… I was born and raised a pagan You could call it my vocation I hate your Christian morals With your rules and regulations Through the smoke of innocence Like quaens we'll reel and spin All down the gorgeous avenue They call the path of sin, and I swore by the light…