SINGER: Guy Mitchell

SONG:Roving Kind

The roving kindguy mitchellwritten by jesse cavanaugh and arnold stantonpeaked at # 4 in 1951competing versions by the weavers hit # 11 and by rex allen hitt #20.adapted from the old 1800s english folk song "the pirate ship."(she had a dark and a-rovin' eye-uh-eye and her hair hung down in ring-a-lets)(she was a nice girl, a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind)as i cruised out one eve-e-ning upon a night's careeri spied a lofty clipper ship and to her i did steeri heisted out my sig-a-nals which she so quickly knewand when she saw my bunting fly she imme-diately hove to-woo-woo(she had a dark and a-rovin' eye-uh-eye and her hair hung down in ring-a-lets)(she was a nice girl, a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind)i took her for some fish and chips and treated her so fineand hardly did i realize she was the rovin' kindi kissed her lips, i missed her lips and found to my surpriseshe was nothin' but a pirate ship rigged up in a dis-guy-eye-ise(she had a dark and a-rovin' eye-eye-eye)and her hair hung down in ring-a-lets(she was a nice girl, a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind)so, come all ye good sailor men who sail the wintry seaand come, all ye apprentice lads, a warnin' take from mebeware of lofty clipper ships, they'll be the ruin of youfor 'twas there she made me walk the plank and pushed me under, too-ooh-ooh(she had a dark and a-rovin' eye-uh-eye and her hair hung down in ring-a-lets)she was a nice girl, a proper girl but one of the rovin' kind(she was a nice girl, a proper girl but)one of the rovin' kind (yo-ho!)