Cara Dillon - I Am A Youth That's Inclined To Ramble lyrics

I am a youth that's inclined to ramble To some foreign country I mean to steer I am loath to part my friends and comrades And my dear sweetheart, whom I love dear But there's one of those I do most admire On her I'll think when I'm far away For since fates decreed I am resolved to part her And try my fortune in Americay So farewell darling since I must leave you I place great dependance on your constancy That no other young man may gain you favour Or change your mind when I am o'er the sea For although the seas do seperate us And in between us they do rise and fall If fortune favours me you'll find your Jamie Returning homeward from Americay Oh Jamie dear do you remember When I sat with you for manys the hour And my young fancy away was carried And the bees hummed around on each opening flower But when you're crossing the western ocean The maid that loved you, you'll ne'er mind ava, And you'll scarce e're think upon the maids of Erin For you'll find strange sweethearts in America Oh Mary dear, I don't disemble For to all other fair maids I'll prove untrue And if you think that these are false promises I'll leave these vows as a pledge to you. That what I have may prove unsuccessful And fortune prove to me a slippery ball That a favouring gale it may n'er blow on me If I forsake you in America And to conclude and to end these verses May God protect this young female fair And keep her from every wild embarra**ment And of my darling take the greatest care For she's slow to anger and of kind disposition And her cheeks like roses in June do blaw In my nightly slumbers when o'er I think on her I could court her vision in America